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Reference Typing German Letters and Characters German Grammar Conjugation of German Verbs Prepositions: Accusative, Dative, and Two-Way Pronouns Articles: Definite and Indefinite Online Dictionaries German Pronunciation Current Weather for Austria, Germany, and Switzerland Typing German Letters and Symbols These are the codes for typing German letters on IBM compatible computers. alt 142 = Ä alt 132 = ä alt 153 = Ö alt 148 = ö alt 154 = Ü alt 129 = ü alt 225 = ß alt 130 = é alt 0128 = €   (This is the symbol for the euro, the European Union's currency. It is used like the U.S.                      dollar sign $. For example, a television which costs 500 euros would have a price tag of                      500€. Germany is currently a member of the E.U. The E.U. has 13 members who also                      use the euro.) If you are not able to make these letters on your computer or typewriter, all you have to do is add the letter "e" after the vowel which you would like to umlaut. For example, ä is also ae. For the ß, just use ss. German Grammar Capitalization Rules for German (E): german.about.com Punctuation Rules for German (E): german.about.com A great site for information about German grammar and pronunciation. (E): College Park German Pronunciation Hear examples of how to correctly pronounce the German alphabet. (E) german.about.com Pronounce the German alphabet with animal pictures. (E) KY Educational Television Online Dictionaries Online dictionary (G/E): LEO - Link Everything Online Online dictionary (G/E): QuickDic Online dictionary (G/E): The New English-German Dictionary Online dictionary and thesaurus (E): Merriam-Webster Online German-English Picture Dictionary (G/E): Enchanted Learning German-English Picture Dictionary (G/E): Picture Dictionary German Picture Dictionary of Animals (G): Tierlexicon 1,000 Most Used German Words (G/E): about.german.com This word list contains 1040 basic German words (G/E): CUSI Conjugation of German Verbs Verb Conjugator and Grammar (G/E): Verbix Prepositions: Accusative, Dative, and Two-Way Pronouns Articles: Definite and Indefinite Current Weather for Austria, Germany, and Switzerland Austria                   Germany                   Switzerland                   Weather Information about weather in Germany (G): Wetter.com Information about weather in Germany and around the world (G): Donnerwetter Miscellaneous Metric Conversions Feet to Meters Conversion Information about the Euro