Making business phone calls: Asking to speak with someone and leaving a message

💬 On its own, wieder means "again". Together with da, it gives the everyday way to say someone is back.

💬 German often uses the present tense for the future. ist here covers "will be", so you don't need a separate future form.

💬 am is a short form of an dem, and you use it for parts of the day and for weekdays. Same pattern in am Vormittag "in the morning" and am Montag "on Monday".

💬 The usual pairing is eine Nachricht hinterlassen "to leave a message". When someone asks Möchten Sie eine Nachricht hinterlassen?, they're offering to take a message.

💬 hinterlassen stays in one piece. hinter doesn't split off: ich hinterlasse eine Nachricht, not ich lasse ... hinter.

💬 möchten sends the second verb to the very end. Swap: Möchten Sie später anrufen? "Would you like to call later?"

💬 zurückrufen splits in a simple statement: Er ruft mich zurück "He'll call me back", with zurück at the end.

💬 When soll is in the sentence, zurückrufen stays in one piece at the end. Same with Er soll mich bitte anrufen "He should call me, please".

💬 With a capital I, Ihr is the polite "your" used with Sie. Lowercase ihr means "her" or "their", so the capital matters in writing.

🇩🇪 This is the standard polite way to ask for a name again, even if the caller never said it clearly. Asking it in the past tense with war sounds natural rather than awkward.

💬 Bescheid is a noun, so it's always capitalised and never changes form. It only really appears in set phrases like this one.

💬 The person being told takes the "to him/to her" form: ihm for him, ihr for her. Ich sage ihr Bescheid means "I'll let her know".

🇩🇪 Since you can't see each other on the phone, Germans swap Auf Wiedersehen "goodbye (in person)" for this "until we hear each other again". It's the standard close for a business call.