Download or read book The Oxford Paperback French Dictionary written by Michael Janes and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1989 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Specially designed to meet the needs of French, Italian, and English-speaking students, tourists, and travelers, these two up-to-date, concise, practical dictionaries contain the most useful words and expressions in the three languages today. Offering translations from both French or Italian into English and English into French or Italian, each dictionary contains 45,000 words and phrases, including useful technical jargon and slang. Indicators in brackets marking different uses of the same word, together with a wide range of clearly-marked style and field labels, guide the user to the translation of the appropriate word or idiomatic expression. Each dictionary gives correct pronunciation, based on the International Phonetic Alphabet, for all headwords and for those derived words whose pronunciation cannot be easily deduced from the headword. They also contain tables of regular and irregular French or Italian verbs and the past tenses and participles of irregular English verbs. Including common abbreviations, names of countries, other useful geographical names, and proprietary names and trade marks, these detailed yet succinct dictionaries also serve as valuable guides to spelling and pronunciation.