diff --git a/src/analyze.cpp b/src/analyze.cpp
index 4e4655c99c..5f4e229f7e 100644
--- a/src/analyze.cpp
+++ b/src/analyze.cpp
@@ -2686,7 +2686,7 @@ static TypeTableEntry *analyze_field_access_expr(CodeGen *g, ImportTableEntry *i
         node->data.field_access_expr.type_struct_field = find_struct_type_field(bare_struct_type, field_name);
         if (node->data.field_access_expr.type_struct_field) {
             return node->data.field_access_expr.type_struct_field->type_entry;
-        } else if (wrapped_in_fn_call) {
+        } else if (wrapped_in_fn_call && !is_slice(bare_struct_type)) {
             BlockContext *container_block_context = get_container_block_context(bare_struct_type);
             assert(container_block_context);
             auto entry = container_block_context->decl_table.maybe_get(field_name);
diff --git a/test/run_tests.cpp b/test/run_tests.cpp
index f777551151..e95c0aa731 100644
--- a/test/run_tests.cpp
+++ b/test/run_tests.cpp
@@ -1451,6 +1451,12 @@ fn function_with_return_type_type() {
             ".tmp_source.zig:3:5: error: failed to evaluate function at compile time",
             ".tmp_source.zig:4:5: note: unable to evaluate this expression at compile time",
             ".tmp_source.zig:3:32: note: required to be compile-time function because of return type 'type'");
+
+    add_compile_fail_case("bogus method call on slice", R"SOURCE(
+fn f(m: []const u8) {
+    m.copy(u8, self.list.items[old_len...], m);
+}
+    )SOURCE", 1, ".tmp_source.zig:3:6: error: no member named 'copy' in '[]const u8'");
 }
 
 //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////