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How to Say ‘Let's drink to that.’ in German

Darauf stoßen wir an.

da-ROWF SHTOH-sen veer an

[da-ROWF SHTOH-sen veer an]

🇩🇪 In Germany: When glasses clink, Germans look each other in the eye. Breaking eye contact is jokingly said to bring seven years of bad luck.

Phrase Breakdown

Darauf

[da-ROWF]

to that / to it

Refers forward to something you are looking forward to or reacting to.

Example

Darauf freue ich mich besonders.

I am especially looking forward to that.

stoßen wir an.

SHTOH-sen veer an

we'll toast / clink glasses.

'anstoßen' means to clink glasses. 'st' at the start sounds like 'sht'. 'ß' is a sharp 's'. The 'o' is long.

Example

Lass uns anstoßen!

Let's make a toast!

Words in this phrase

stoßen

[SHTOH-sen]

clink glasses (with 'an')

From 'anstoßen', to toast.

Example

Wir stoßen auf den Sieg an.

We toast to the victory.

wir

[veer]

Pronoun for a group including the speaker.

Example

Wir arbeiten gern zusammen.

We like working together.

[an]

(separable prefix)

Prefix of 'anhalten', placed at the end.

Example

Der Bus hält gleich an.

The bus is about to stop.

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