diff --git a/src/tex2lyx/test/test-insets.tex b/src/tex2lyx/test/test-insets.tex
index 2dea2448c9..7136f2eeb2 100644
--- a/src/tex2lyx/test/test-insets.tex
+++ b/src/tex2lyx/test/test-insets.tex
@@ -285,7 +285,7 @@ or by a defined page break \pagebreak[4]
 
 Then one has those macros with a long name for a short meaning, like
 \textasciitilde, \textasciicircum{} or \textbackslash{}, \slash{},
-\nobreakdash and the characters
+\nobreakdash- and the characters
 that LaTeX wants to espace because they are active, like \_\&\#\$\{\}\%.
 
 And what about special characters like hyphe\-nation mark,
diff --git a/src/tex2lyx/text.cpp b/src/tex2lyx/text.cpp
index 3e25ef53e1..d901e18150 100644
--- a/src/tex2lyx/text.cpp
+++ b/src/tex2lyx/text.cpp
@@ -2462,9 +2462,10 @@ void parse_text(Parser & p, ostream & os, unsigned flags, bool outer,
 			skip_spaces_braces(p);
 		}
 
-		else if (t.cs() == "nobreakdash") {
+		else if (t.cs() == "nobreakdash" && p.next_token().asInput() == "-") {
 			context.check_layout(os);
-			os << "\\SpecialChar \\nobreakdash\n";
+			os << "\\SpecialChar \\nobreakdash-\n";
+			p.get_token();
 		}
 
 		else if (t.cs() == "textquotedbl") {