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How to Say ‘Shall we go in now?’ in German

Wollen wir jetzt reingehen?

VOL-en veer yetst RINE-gay-en

[VOL-en veer yetst RINE-gay-en]

💬 Usage Tip: reingehen is the casual spoken form of hineingehen "to go in". Same pattern: rauskommen "to come out".

Phrase Breakdown

Wollen wir

VOL-en veer

Shall we

A friendly way to suggest something. The 'W' sounds like an English 'v'.

Example

Wollen wir essen?

Shall we eat?

Words in this phrase

Wollen

[VOL-en]

want (to); shall we

Form of 'wollen'; with 'wir' it makes a polite suggestion like 'shall we'.

Example

Wollen wir etwas trinken?

Shall we have something to drink?

wir

[veer]

Pronoun for a group including the speaker.

Example

Wir arbeiten gern zusammen.

We like working together.

jetzt reingehen?

yetst RINE-gay-en

go in now?

'jetzt' means now. Say it as 'yetst'.

Example

Gehen wir jetzt?

Are we going now?

Words in this phrase

jetzt

[yetst]

now

At the present time.

Example

Ich gehe jetzt.

I'm going now.

reingehen

[RINE-gay-en]

to go in

Colloquial separable verb (short for 'hineingehen') meaning to enter a place.

Example

Lass uns ins Café reingehen.

Let's go into the café.

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