This tag has two distinct purposes: 1) How to address persons (since there is also the salutation tag, this might be the better choice in those cases) 2) issues connected with postal adddresses
Questions tagged [address]
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What does "guter Mann" mean? How can one use it correctly?
I've seen this form of addressing twice:
Once I was watching a reality show and a policeman was trying to get a person to tell them their name and, exasperated after multiple tries, he said something like "Guter Mann, bitte sagen Sie mir Ihren…
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How do I specify the floor number in the address for deliveries?
So, it appears Germany doesn't believe in apartment numbers, so couriers must use my surname to locate my apartment.
Some new buildings have the floor number written near the intercom buttons, but my building does not (a new building from late…
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Translating what The Queen said: does she always address her subjects as «Du»?
Today’s General-Anzeiger Bonn has an article containing an excerpt from The Queen’s Diamond Jubilee message in which
to your service
is translated as
in Euren Dienst
Now I don’t believe for a moment that Her Majesty would mean to be rude, but at…
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