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Illustration of the A1 German word “buchstabieren”, which translates to “to spell”. A friendly owl plucks glowing alphabet blocks from a tree and stacks them into a wobbly, towering rainbow ladder reaching up to the clouds.

buchstabieren is part of German verbs A1–B1 and Goethe A1 vocabulary.

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buchstabieren

to spell

/ˌbuːxʃtaˈbiːʁən/

Conjugation

Principal parts

buchstabieren, buchstabierte, hat buchstabiert

ich buchstabiere
du buchstabierst
er/sie/es buchstabiert
wir buchstabieren
ihr buchstabiert
sie/Sie buchstabieren

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Examples — buchstabieren in a sentence

Können Sie bitte Ihren Namen buchstabieren?

Can you please spell your name?

Ich buchstabiere das Wort langsam.

I spell the word slowly.

How to remember it

BOOCH-SHTAH-beer-en. A book with BEER stains! You need to SPELL out the words to read it.

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