Language resources and useful links for German

Our translators' pick of useful sites for German terminology, including public-service sites for terms used in context.

 

National websites

German and Austrian institutional sites

Austria

• Federal President (Bundespräsident)
• Federal Chancellery (Bundeskanzleramt)
• Austrian Parliament (Österreichisches Parlament)
• Constitutional Court (Verfassungsgerichtshof — VfGH)
• Chancellery's legal information system (RIS — Rechtsinformationssystem)
• Federal Constitutional Laws — a selection

Germany

• Federal President (Bundespräsident)
• Bundestag
• Federal Chancellor (Bundeskanzlerin)
• Federal Council (Bundesrat)
• Federal Government (Bundesregierung)
• Foreign Ministry (Auswärtiges Amt — AA)

Other links from Austria and Germany

Austria

• Austrian Standardisation Institute (Österreichisches Normungsinstitut — ON) 
• Statistics Austria

Germany

• German Standardisation Institute (Deutsches Institut für Normung — DIN)
• Federal Statistical Office (Statistisches Bundesamt — StBA)

 

Style and grammar guides, language campaigns

• Clear writing for administrations — German government
• How to write clearly — European Commission booklet (all EU languages) [March 2010]

 

Online dictionaries, term banks and glossaries

Dictionaries & encyclopedias

• German dictionary portal

Multilingual dictionaries

• LexiLogos — bilingual and multilingual dictionaries
• Omniglot Online Dictionaries
• Online Film Dictionary

Bilingual dictionaries

English - German

• TU Chemnitz

Term banks & glossaries

• EU budget terminology
• CosIng — cosmetic ingredients
• Customs glossary
• National Bank of Austria — terminology
• Environment glossary (EEA)
• Civil and commercial law glossary
• EURYDICE — European education thesaurus
• FishBase — global information system on fish
• German Terminology Portal — terminology by policy field
• Glossaries by language
• International Monetary Fund (IMF) — multilingual directory
• Regional development glossary
• Statistics — multilingual glossary by the International Statistical Institute (ISI)
• Medical terms — technical and everyday
• Terminology database — French, German, English and Dutch
• World bird database
• Innsbrucker Termbank Online