Franklin Professor PRO DBD-3040 - Manual (Page 17)

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Conjugations show inflections, or
changes in a word’s gender, tense,
etc. This dictionary includes extensive
inflections of nouns, verb, modifiers
and other words.
From the Icon Menu
1. For example, press MENÜ, use
the arrow keys to highlight
(German Conjugation) and
then press EINGABE.
To choose English conjugation,
highlight
. You can also press
BEUG and then E/D to choose
the language.
2. Type a word (e.g., denken).
3. Press BEUG.
If needed, highlight the part of
speech or translation you want
and press EINGABE.
These are the principal forms of
the German verb “denken”. The
English translations are below
each German inflection.
4. Press or to scroll.
Press to display the root word.
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5. Press either BEUG or hold FN
and press repeatedly to
view more inflections.
If the word is a noun, an adjective,
or another modifier, then there
won’t be any other inflections.
6. Press CLEAR when done.
From a Dictionary Entry
Some words have different parts of
speech or multiple translations. You can
easily find which part of speech or specif-
ic translation you will need to conjugate
by first looking up the word and then
pressing BEUG. Follow this example.
1. Press MENÜ, use the arrow
keys to highlight and then
press EINGABE.
To choose English, highlight
.
You can also press BEUG and
then E/D to choose the language.
2. Type a word (e.g., reden).
3. Choose a form, if needed.
In this case, choose reden.
Capitalized words are usually nouns.