Basic time: Scheduling a time for the appointment

🇩🇪 This is a polite, complete way to turn down a suggested time. Offering an alternative right after is what people normally do.

🇩🇪 Germans use the 24-hour clock for schedules and appointments. vierzehn Uhr is 2 pm, so subtract twelve to convert.

🇩🇪 In speech, people say halb vier, but receptionists may confirm with the 24-hour fünfzehn Uhr dreißig. Both mean the same appointment.

💬 halb vier means half an hour before four, so it's 3:30, not 4:30. Likewise, halb zehn is 9:30.

💬 Dann "then" at the start pushes the verb or question word along, and vielleicht "maybe" softens the suggestion. Together they make a friendly way to propose another time.

💬 passen "to fit" is the go-to verb for saying a time suits you. Another example: Das passt mir nicht "That doesn't suit me".

💬 In 24-hour times, the minutes come after Uhr: fünfzehn Uhr dreißig is 15:30. For example, neun Uhr fünfzehn is 9:15.

💬 Also means "so" here, not "also". For "also", German says auch.

🇩🇪 Receptionists usually repeat the appointment back like this to confirm it. It's a good moment to check you heard the time right.

🇩🇪 This is the standard polite reply to thanks in a service setting. More casually, people just say gern or bitte.

💬 hören means "to hear", so this literally means "until we hear each other again". Face to face, you'd say Auf Wiedersehen, built on sehen "to see".