Restaurant reservations Part 3 (Advanced): Confirming the reservation details, including date, time, and number of guests.

💬 Times use alle because you're counting hours, which are plural. The exception is one o'clock: all'una.

💬 persone is the plural of persona, and it stays feminine even when the group is all men: quattro persone simpatiche "four nice people".

💬 Clock times take alle because you mean "at the hours": alle otto, alle nove. Only one o'clock is singular: all'una "at one".

🇮🇹 Tacking giusto? onto the end of a summary is the natural way to double-check details by phone. It sounds friendly, not pushy.

💬 Italian counts a group with essere in plus a number: siamo in quattro "there are four of us". saremmo is the softer "would be" form, which makes the change sound like a polite request.

💬 stretti matches the people it describes, so a group of women would say siamo un po' strette. The same word also describes tight clothes: scarpe strette "tight shoes".

💬 Italian says "would it go well to you": Le "to you" is the polite form, and the thing that suits you is what andrebbe agrees with. Same shape: Le va bene? "Does that work for you?"

💬 Le here means "to you" in the polite form, and andare bene "to go well" is the everyday way to say something suits you. Swap in other options: Le andrebbe bene domani? "Would tomorrow suit you?"

💬 The accent matters: sì means "yes", while si without it is a different little word meaning "oneself".

💬 Times count as plural hours, so the verb is plural too: le nove vanno bene. With one o'clock it switches to singular: l'una va bene.

💬 Polite requests to a stranger use the "he/she" form of the verb: conferma, not confermi. The same pattern works for other requests: Mi ripete? "Can you repeat that for me?"

💬 allora at the end works like English "so, then" when you sum things up. It is very common in confirmations and wrap-ups.

💬 segnare "to mark, note down" is the everyday word staff use for writing a booking in the book. Le makes it "for you", in the polite form.

💬 sempre usually means "always", but when checking details it means "still, same as before".

💬 Bookings go a nome plus a surname, with no word for "the": a nome Rossi.

💬 -ino shrinks a word, so pochino is a smaller, softer poco "a little". The same ending turns momento into momentino "just a moment".

💬 se dovessimo "if we should" is a polite way to raise a possibility that might not happen. It works for other situations too: se dovessimo cancellare "if we had to cancel".

💬 ci here means "for us" and goes before the verb. tenete is the "you all" form, because you're addressing the restaurant as a whole.

💬 glielo combines "to you" and "it" into one word, placed before the verb. You'll hear it constantly from staff: glielo porto "I'll bring it to you".

🇮🇹 Fifteen minutes is the usual grace period at busy Italian restaurants. After that, your table may go to walk-ins.

💬 magari softens a request, like "perhaps". faccia is the polite command form of fare "to do, make", and fare una telefonata is the everyday way to say "make a call".

💬 si figuri is the polite form, used with someone you'd address formally. With friends it becomes figurati.

💬 a + a time is a quick goodbye: a domani "see you tomorrow", a stasera "see you tonight".

💬 a plus a day or time is the standard "see you then" goodbye: a domani "see you tomorrow", a presto "see you soon".

🇮🇹 altrettanto "likewise" is the natural reply when someone wishes you a good evening or meal. It works the same in formal and casual situations.