How is the best way to tell someone they have the wrong phone number?

[mmaddock]

We get far too many phone calls asking for completely random people.  With no time to prepare what I'm going to say(!) I normally fumble my way through and usually come out with some mumbled drivel about them not living here.  What's the correct 'French' thing to say to tell them they have called the wrong number?

Cheers,

Matt

[Clair]

1) Vous avez un mauvais numéro (you have the wrong number)

Their likely response is to ask what your number is, to which you could say

2) Quel numéro avez-vous appelé? (what number did you call?)

They should then tell you the number they think they've called, then you repeat 1)

[:D]

[Pierre ZFP]

Possibly

désolé, vous avez le nombre incorrect

or

désolé, vous avez le faux numéro

I wait with anticipation to be corrected

 

[Suze01]

Probably grammatically completely wrong ([8-)]) but I say

Vous avez vous trompez avec le numero

or

Vous avez mal tappez le numero

They know what I mean anyway.

[TWINKLE]

This is what the French say:

"Vous vous etes trompé de numero monsieur/madame"

To which they normally reply "Je m'excuse" ou "Je suis désolé" -  (I'm sorry)

[Christine Animal]

"Vous faites erreur".

Quick and easy !

 

[Cassis]

I use a variation on Twink's formula - "Désolé, vous avez dû vous tromper de numéro."  If it's obviously a sales call I use "You've got the wrong number".

[Teamedup]

I say what Twinkle says. En plus, I like 'tromper' think it is a nice little verb and says so much.

[Missy]

La personne qui appelle : Je voudrais parler à Madame B.?...    ou : Je voudrais parler à Monsieur B.?...

Moi : Ah oui! Vraiment désolée. Madame B. (ou Monsieur B.) a déménagé!....    [:-))]

Voilà! Problème règlé...[:D]

 

[mmaddock]

Thanks for that - I'll have to practice a bit so I'm ready to go when I get the next one!

Cheers,

Matt

[Miki]

Yep, Twinks is by far the more normal response that one can expect from a French person, that you have wrongly dialled.

[Tresco]

[quote user="TWINKLE"]

This is what the French say:

"Vous vous etes trompé de numero monsieur/madame"[/quote]

I nearly said this, but thought it might be some mad regional thing, so kept quiet. I'm such a coward.

I heard my neighbour say it to someone when I was in her kitchen one day, not long after we got here, and asked her about it (it was so obvious it was a wrong number).

I don't know why other things don't 'go in' as easily as this one.

[fulcrum]

I always say "vous avez le numero trompez". I know it's maybe complete b***x but they understand that I'm an etranger. They always sound friendly and polite.

[The-Lovely-Wendy]

[quote user="mmaddock"]Thanks for that - I'll have to practice a bit so I'm ready to go when I get the next one!

Cheers,

Matt
[/quote]

Write it out and put it next to the phone, then you have it in front of you next time you get a call.[;-)]