A German-to-English dictionary for algebra students
Here is a small technical dictionary of mathematical German. It lists some of
the very common terms used in algebra, commutative algebra and algebraic
geometry. It also contains many words used in everyday German, that
the Algebra community use to express their ideas. This compilation is,
by no means, complete, in any sense. And it will keep growing .......
I assume some knowledge of German grammar on the part of the reader. I made no
attempts to discuss how to use the words found in the
dictionary to make meaningful syntactically correct German sentences. For this
purpose "myriads" of text books are available in the market. And it's
a waste of effort to provide a tutorial to this effect.
Errors and ommisions are likely to occur. In case you notice any, please
mail your comments to me.
Conventions
Each entry in the dictionary generally consists of three parts. The first is
the word itself. The second is the grammatical information on the word and the
third the English meaning. The second part tells about the part of speech
of the word and the plural forms of nouns. This part is kept blank if
such information is not applicable or if it is redundant or if relevant
information is unavailable to me. Here is an example of a three-column entry :
Auskunft f,¨e information
This means that the gender of the noun Auskunft is feminine and its plural
is Auskünfte. Finally, the meaning of the word is information.
Abbreviations
- abbr
- abbreviation
- acc
- accusative case
- adj
- adjective
- adv
- adverb
- conj
- conjunction
- dat
- dative case
- etw
- etwas
- f
- feminine
- gen
- genitive case
- jdm
- jemandem
- jdn
- jemanden
- jds
- jemandes
- m
- masculine
- nt
- neuter
- pl
- plural
- pp
- past participle
- pref
- prefix
- prep
- preposition
- pron
- pronoun
- sb
- somebody
- sth
- something
- tps
- third person singular
- vb
- verb
- vi
- intransitive verb
- vr
- reflexive verb
- vt
- transitive verb
Acknowledgement
I am grateful to Dr. Dilip P. Patil for providing me many books and clarifying
my doubts. Mr. Indranath Sengupta also deserves special thanks for giving me
the English translation [2] of [1]. I am indebted to Prof. R. Lakshminarayan
who taught me German. I acknowledge the inspiration provided by my reasearch
supervisor Prof. C.E. Veni Madhavan to prepare this dictionary. Finally, I
would like to thank Dr. Abhi Datta Sharma
for his book [7] and Mr. Anirban Bhattacharya for enjoyable chats in German
(unseres Unterhalten in Deutsch) and all other friends who tolerate my
frequent inclusion of German words (without meanings, of course)
during conversation.
References
I used the following books to prepare the dictionary :
- [1]
- Ernst Kunz, Einführung in die kommutative Algebra und Algebraische
Geometrie, Friedr. Vieweg & Sohn Verlagsgesellschaft mbH, Vieweg Studium
Bd. 46, Braunschweig, 1980.
- [2]
- Ernst Kunz, Introduction to Commutative Algebra and Algebraic
Geometry, translated by Michael Ackerman, Birkhäuser, Boston, 1985.
- [3]
- Hans-Jörg Reiffen, Günter Scheja und Udo Vetter, Algebra,
Hochschultaschenbücher, Band 110, Bibliographisches Institut AG,
Mannheim 1984.
- [4]
- I.N. Herstein, Topics in Algebra, 2nd edition, Wiley Eastern
Limited, 1975.
- [5]
- Collins Paperback German Dictionary, 2nd. edition, HarperCollin
Publishers, 1995.
- [6]
- Eva C. Lange, German in 20 Lessons, 1st. Collins Cortina edition,
Collins, 1962.
- [7]
- Karl-Heinz Buschmann and Rajkumar Mukerji, German for Indians,
World Press Private Limited, Calcutta, 1957.
- [8]
- H. Kale and H. Meinel, Deutsches Lesebuch für Naturwissenschaftler,
zweite Auflage, Foreign Language Section, Indian Institute of Science,
Bangalore, 1962.
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