Customer Reviews
Disappointing - By: Andrew Irvine, 21 Aug 2006 
From such a respected academic publisher as Routledge one would have expected far better. This dictionary is clumsy, outdated & lackingin essential information for the serious (or even casual) learner of Norwegian. The most glaring ommissions are noun classes & verb transitivity. But perhaps most detrimental of all to ease of use is the layout.
No dictionary should ever use indentation for primary entries. This makes the entries hard to find & puts themin an apparent subordinate position relative to sub-entries appearing on the margin, which appear to have a higher status.
This dictionary could have been much better, butin its current form is sadly not worth the price.
Where are the genders? And what about phonetics? - By: , 12 Jan 2003 
I ordered the dictionary blind, thinking that the biggest dictionary possible was bound to include these things. But there just seem to be so many words missing! If you wanted to know the norwegian for Norway you won't find it here! For the price I was very disappointed, although there are various obscure nuggets to be gleaned (I could tell you what an "irrigation cooler" isin norwegian).
My mini Berlitz dictionary, which cost next-to-nothing, has phonetics included with every entry & it's invaluable. If only this book could have addressed this & the matter of genders. Ah well.....
No genders! - By: , 14 Aug 2001 I bought this dictionary before moving to Norway, so it wasn't until I started to learn Norwegian that I discovered the glaring omissionin this book - it does not give the genders of the words. Apart from this it is a good dictionary, giving information about usage & a short section on Norwegian grammar. Oh yes, & lots of obscure terms from the oil industry. But for having such a basic fault, I couldn't give this dictionary more than one star.
