Prisma's Abridged English-Swedish and Swedish-English Dictionary

The dictionary was known to me before ordering and I took a chance on a new but shopworn copy which completely filled the bill.

This dictionary is crammed with material. Clearly a lot of thought has gone into making it as usable as possible. I especially like the way the margins are marked so you can easily see where "A" ends and "B" begins. Prismas indicates pronunciation of Swedish words where it is not obvious (e.g. is "o" pronounced "o" or "u"?) but does not waste space where it is. It indicates word accent (single tone vs double tone)! There are lots of abbreviations, and Swedes are clearly a large part of the target audience. This is not a "beginner's dictionary." I'm an Engish speaker and have been studying Swedish on my own for a few months now. This is the first Swedish dictionary I have owned, but I have browsed others in bookstores. This is as good as any I have seen, and better than most.

I have been looking for a decent but lower in price Swedish-English dictionary that is helpful for engelska speaking people. Most I have seen are for Swedes that want to learn English.This dictionary has English-Svenska Swedish-Engelska as well as codes so that you can figure out whether the dang noun is a neuter or common noun and their declension class i.e. Ett bi, bit, bin etc. Hippocrene was of no use for that.Overall good.

This is a great dictionary for anyone or for the beginners who don't know a lot about the Swedish language. I can remember purchasing this book in early October 1996 when it first came out, and I can tell you that it was very informative. I've notice that many dictionaries of that language don't match up to this one -- it have information about the article declension which are important in grammar. I am shocked to find out that Hippocrene don't establish much. It has just a few pitfalls: It don't have some supplemental words (e.g.: Internet, World Wide Web, etc.) since it was published some five years ago, but they have re-edit it in late 1997 and '98. At that time, the international world was changing slowing then. But still it is worth the money to purchase it as a starter for translations and the many entries they have. I hope they continue with this method within the future.