Receipts and supporting documents

Quittung und Beleg

Ask for a receipt, ask whether someone has a document, understand a signing instruction and say you have paid.

Use Ich brauche eine Quittung to ask for a receipt. Haben Sie einen Beleg? asks whether someone has a supporting document. Bitte hier unterschreiben is a short signing instruction. Ich habe schon bezahlt says the payment is already complete. Review accusative objects and the haben-Perfekt. Quittung is feminine; Beleg is masculine. Haben Sie schon bezahlt? asks whether payment is already complete. Bitte schön can accompany handing over the example receipt.

Learn die Quittung → eine Quittung and der Beleg → einen Beleg in these object phrases. Habe … bezahlt is a two-part past form.

Quittung and Beleg can refer to overlapping documents in payment situations, but Beleg is broader. This lesson teaches useful language, not rules about which document an institution must accept.

Ich brauche ein Quittung uses the wrong article. Say eine Quittung. Bitte hier unterschreiben is a normal short instruction even without an explicit subject.

Receipt: eine Quittung. Supporting document: einen Beleg. Sign: unterschreiben. Already paid: schon bezahlt.

Play two roles: one person asks about a document; the other says they need a receipt and have already paid. Treat the signing expression as a separate practice instruction.