buchstabieren
German
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˌbuːx.ʃtaˈbiː.rən/
Audio (file) - Hyphenation: buch‧sta‧bie‧ren
- Rhymes: -iːʁən
Verb
buchstabieren (weak, third-person singular present buchstabiert, past tense buchstabierte, past participle buchstabiert, auxiliary haben)
- (usually transitive) to spell (name the letters of a word)
Usage notes
- The German verb generally implies an actual naming of the letters and is not used in the sense of “write out in a particular way”, for which schreiben is used. Thus: Pass auf, dass du alles richtig schreibst! (“Be careful to spell (everything) correctly!”) Moreover, buchstabieren is not used of letters themselves. One would say, for example: Die Buchstaben A-X-T bilden das Wort „Axt“. (“The letters A-X-T spell the word ‘Axt’.”) Or: A-X-T ergibt „Axt“. (“A-X-T spells ‘Axt’.”)
Conjugation
Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)
Derived terms
- Buchstabieren, Buchstabierer, Buchstabierung
- buchstabierend, buchstabiert
- vorbuchstabieren, ausbuchstabieren
Related terms
Further reading
- “buchstabieren” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
- “buchstabieren” in Deutsches Wörterbuch von Jacob und Wilhelm Grimm, 16 vols., Leipzig 1854–1961.
- “buchstabieren” in Duden online
- “buchstabieren” in OpenThesaurus.de
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