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Swedish/English-English/Swedish Standard Dictionary (Hippocrene Standard Dictionary)

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This should not be sold to English speaking learners. It is only for Swedes who are learning English. No noun declension, or verb declension is given in any detail at all - non existant.To use this dictionary in any effective manner at all, you would need to juggle a text-book/grammar primer, and the dictionary itself. Sure, the dictionary is cheap, but what you pay for is what you get. However, the question needs to be asked, what dictionary for English speakers learning Swedish is there, with proper noun and verb declension details?

As the introduction says, this book is intended for Swedish speakers who are learning English. It does not give Swedish noun declensions or verb tenses. Also, it gives the pronunciation of English words but not of the Swedish words. This book shouldn't be sold in US bookstores.

If you are learning Swedish, the Prisma dictionary is much more useful.

Indeed, this dictionary is quite useless for learning Swedish. Main flaw: no gender indication. Say, you want to translate "an oak". This dictionary won't give you a clue whether it is "en ek" or "ett ek". Also no plural forms are given. So for non-Swedish speakers, this is quite a waste of money.

It is inconceivable to me that someone could sit down to create a Swedish-English dictionary and not include the gender of Swedish nouns, i.e. whether they are "ett" or "en" words. One also needs to know the noun plurals for definite and indefinite forms, which are difficult in Swedish. This book is a rip off and I am mad I bought it.

This book does not contain the genders of the nouns, or their formation in the plural. It is obviously for Swedish speakers only.