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ThisdictionaryisthestandardforGermanspellingbasedonthenew,ofcialregula-
tions, to look up the obligatory spelling of words, division of words and regulations.
Inaddition,thefunctions‘Rechtschreibprüfung’,‘Kreuzworträtsellösen’,‘Anagramm
lösen’and‘Duden-Regeln’,whicharetherulesfortheGermanspellingandpunctua-
tion, are available in this menu.
Looking up a word by Filter search
Adenitionofawordcanbelookedupbyinputtingitsspelling.
<Example>
Findtheinformationfor‘gelb’.
1. Press
d
to open Duden – Die deutsche
Rechtschreibung.
The input screen appears.
2.Typeinthespellingof‘gelb’.
As you type, candidates for matching narrow.
If the desired word is found, then there is no
need to type any more letters.
3.Use
{
and
}
tomove‘
’topointatthedesiredword,thenpress
e
.
The detail view of the word appears.
•Tobrowsecontentsonthenext/previouspage,press
} {
or
> <
. You
mayalsondtheQuickviewfunctionuseful.
•Ifawordselectedisaclosederivativeofaheadword,itmaynothaveitsown
denitions.Inthesecases,itishelpfultoscrollupwithinthedetailviewtond
thedenitionsoftheheadworditself.
•UsetheSuperJumpfnctiontomarkawordinadetailscreenandexplain/trans-
late it, or to open the regulations of the German spelling, which are displayed
with
.FormoreinformationontheDudenrulescanbefoundonpage31.
•Press
f
to return to the previous screen.
•Press
^
l
to list the headwords in Duden – Die deutsche
Rechtschreibung.
•Tosearchforadifferentword,simplyinputanewspellingfortheword,or
press
^
b
or
d
to go to the dictionary's input screen.
Note about entering characters
Whileenteringcharacters,excludecharacterssuchasspaces,hyphens,apostro-
phes, slashes, commas, periods and brackets. See pages 14 and 15 for details.
If there are multiple correct spellings
for a word, the recommendation of
the Duden marked with an asterisk
*
.
Using Duden – Die deutsche
Rechtschreibung