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Am Telefon · 1 of 1Week of 13 – 19 Sept

Spelling out your name on the phone

On the phone, the agent does not understand your name, and you have to spell it out letter by letter.

These ten words help you spell your name clearly over the phone, including buchstabieren (to spell out), Umlaut (umlaut) and Bindestrich (hyphen). Each one comes with how to say it and a sentence you can say out loud.

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The ten words10 words, 10 sentences

  1. 1
    buchstabierento spell out/buːxʃtaˈbiːʁən/verbTo say the letters of a word one by one.Stressed on the third syllable: buch-schta-BIE-ren; the st sounds like sht, and the ch before it is the back-of-throat sound.
  2. 2
    vornamefirst name/ˈfoːɐ̯naːmə/nounThe name parents choose for a child.The V sounds like an f, and the r at the end of the first syllable turns into a short uh sound.
  3. 3
    nachnamelast name/ˈnaːxnaːmə/nounThe family name shared with parents and siblings.

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The sentences

  1. 1

    Soll ich das Wort für Sie langsam buchstabieren?

    Should I spell the word out slowly for you?

  2. 2

    Mein Vorname wird am Telefon oft falsch verstanden.

    My first name is often misheard on the phone.

  3. 3

    Mein Nachname hat einen Bindestrich in der Mitte.

    My last name has a hyphen in the middle.

The same situation in English, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, French.