Basic numbers: Paying the grocery bill

🇩🇪 Greeting the cashier when it's your turn is normal in Germany. Skipping it can come across as a bit cold.

💬 German says the ones before the tens: dreiundzwanzig is literally "three-and-twenty". Same pattern: einundvierzig "forty-one", fünfundsechzig "sixty-five".

💬 Prices are read as euros, then the cent amount, with no word for the decimal point and usually no Cent at the end. So €4.20 is vier Euro zwanzig.

🇩🇪 Cash is still common in Germany, and some small shops and bakeries don't take cards. To pay by card instead, say mit Karte "by card".

💬 The verb matches the amount, so it's sind "are" with a plural like dreißig Euro. With a single note you'd say Hier ist ein Zehner "Here's a tenner".

💬 Euro and Cent don't add an s after a number: zwei Euro, fünf Cent.

💬 vielleicht usually means "maybe", but in a request like this it just softens the question, like "by any chance".

🇩🇪 Cashiers often ask for the odd coins so they can hand back round change and keep their coins stocked. Handing over exact coins is appreciated.