Restaurant reservations Part 3 (Advanced): Asking about any ongoing promotions or special menus.

💬 stimmen means "to be correct" here, not anything to do with voices. The same verb gives Stimmt so "keep the change" when paying.

🇩🇪 White asparagus season, roughly April to late June, is a big deal in Germany. Many restaurants run special asparagus menus only during those weeks.

💬 After mit, plural nouns add an extra -n: Gänge becomes Gängen. Same with mit Freunden "with friends".

💬 Euro doesn't take a plural ending after a number: 49 Euro, never Euros.

💬 Gibt's is short for gibt es "is there", the everyday way to ask if something exists or is offered. Swap in what you want: Gibt's das auch vegetarisch? "Is that also available vegetarian?"

💬 Weinbegleitung is Wein "wine" plus Begleitung "accompaniment", one long word built from two.

💬 die here works like "it" or "that one", pointing back to die Weinbegleitung. In speech Germans often use der, die or das this way instead of er, sie or es.

💬 Adding -s to a day turns it into "on every such day": dienstags means "on Tuesdays". Days written this way take a small first letter.

💬 am is an dem squeezed together. Germans say am Wochenende, where British English uses "at" and American English uses "on".

💬 schade on its own means "what a pity". It's a quick, polite way to react to disappointing news.

💬 After etwas or irgendwas, an adjective becomes a noun with a capital letter and an -es ending: Besonderes. Same pattern: etwas Neues "something new".

💬 Adding -s and writing a day in lowercase turns it into "every" that day. Works for all days, e.g. montags "on Mondays".

💬 Überraschungsmenü joins Überraschung and Menü with an extra s in the middle. Words ending in -ung usually add that s when they join another word.

💬 vom is von dem squeezed together, used before masculine and neuter words. Compare von der Chefin for a female head chef.

💬 anbieten splits in a normal sentence, with an going to the end: Wir bieten ein Menü an "We offer a set menu".

💬 When a sentence starts with dann, the verb comes straight after it and before wir. Same with Dann nehmen wir das "Then we'll take that".

💬 In a question like this, reservieren goes all the way to the end, with whatever you're reserving placed in the middle. Könnten "could" sounds more polite than Können "can".

💬 ein becomes einen because the table is the thing being reserved, and Tisch is a masculine word. Feminine and neuter words don't change: eine Flasche "a bottle".

💬 halb acht means half past seven, not half past eight. German counts the half hour toward the next hour, so halb drei is 2:30.

🇩🇪 This short reply is typical staff language confirming your booking. Your reservation is done once you hear it.

💬 German uses auf where English says "under" for a booking name. It's a fixed expression, so learn it whole.

💬 freuen always needs a word pointing back at the speaker: ich freue mich, wir freuen uns. Leaving out uns sounds broken.

💬 sich freuen auf means looking forward to something still coming. For something already happening, use über: wir freuen uns über Ihren Besuch "we're glad about your visit".

🇩🇪 A standard friendly sign-off when a restaurant confirms your booking by phone or email. No reply is expected.

💬 Auskunft means information given in answer to a question. It's what you'll also see on information desks at stations.

💬 Wiederhören swaps the "see" in Auf Wiedersehen for hören "hear", since you can't see each other on the phone.