Oktoberfest: Ordering beer and pretzels

🇩🇪 Brezn is the Bavarian word; elsewhere in Germany it's Brezel. Using Brezn in Munich sounds natural and local.

💬 bitte does double duty: "please" when asking, and "here you go" or "you're welcome" when giving or replying. Adding schön just makes it a bit warmer.

💬 machen usually means "to make/do", but here it means "to come to" a total. You'll also hear Das macht zehn Euro "That comes to ten euros".

💬 German says the ones before the tens: einundzwanzig is literally "one-and-twenty". Same pattern for fünfundvierzig "forty-five".

💬 sind is used because the amount is plural. For a single item you'd say hier ist "here is".

💬 Literally "it's right like that", meaning the amount you handed over stands as is.

🇩🇪 This is how Germans tip: round up and say Stimmt so as you pay, rather than leaving money on the table. Rounding up a euro or two per Maß is normal.

🇩🇪 Look the other person in the eye as you clink; avoiding eye contact is considered bad form, and superstition says it brings seven years of bad luck. With heavy Maß mugs, clink the bodies rather than the rims to avoid chipping the glass.

💬 wieder "again" plus sehen "see" makes literally "until seeing again". Don't confuse it with wider "against", which sounds identical.