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How to Say ‘A curry sausage with fries, please.’ in German

Eine Currywurst mit Pommes, bitte.

EYE-nuh KUR-ee-voorst mit POM-es BIT-tuh

[EYE-nuh KUR-ee-voorst mit POM-es BIT-tuh]

🇩🇪 In Germany: At an Imbiss "snack stand", naming the item plus bitte is a perfectly polite way to order. No full sentence is needed.

Phrase Breakdown

Eine Currywurst

EYE-nuh KUR-ee-voorst

A curry sausage

A famous German street food: sausage with curry ketchup. Say KUR-ree-voorst.

Example

Eine Currywurst ist lecker.

A curry sausage is tasty.

Words in this phrase

Eine

[EYE-nuh]

a; an; one

Feminine form of the indefinite article, used before singular feminine nouns.

Example

Eine offene Kultur ist mir bei einem Unternehmen wichtig.

An open culture is important to me in a company.

Currywurst

[KUR-ee-voorst]

curry sausage

Sliced sausage with curry ketchup and curry powder, a famous Berlin street food.

Example

In Berlin esse ich eine Currywurst.

In Berlin I eat a currywurst.

mit Pommes, bitte.

mit POM-es BIT-tuh

with fries, please.

'Pommes' is short for 'Pommes frites'. Germans say POM-mes and pronounce the final 's'.

Example

Ein Schnitzel mit Pommes, bitte.

A schnitzel with fries, please.

Words in this phrase

mit

[mit]

with

A preposition meaning 'with'.

Example

Mit Blick klingt nach einem schönen Tisch.

'With a view' sounds like a nice table.

Pommes

[POM-es]

fries

Short colloquial word for 'Pommes frites', French fries.

Example

Die Pommes sind heiß.

The fries are hot.

bitte

[BIT-tuh]

please

Polite word used in requests; can also mean 'you're welcome' depending on context.

Example

Bitte, ich möchte den Termin ändern.

Please, I would like to change the appointment.

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