Alert adding duplicate contact

i have 12000 contacts. i want to know how to avoid a duplicate contact when I add a new one

Thank you for your answer. But I enter '''new''' adresses, from people who fill a paper form and then I add them to my contacts. They don´t contact me by mail.

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  • HT204150 I deleted my duplicate contacts one by one on my iPad but have lost over 600 contacts on my iPad they are all on my iPhone but when I sync my iCloud I only have 200 contact on my iPad but have all 820 on my iPhone can any one help

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