How to Say ‘How many people would there be?’ in Italian
Quante persone sareste?
KWAHN-teh pehr-SOH-neh sah-REH-steh
[KWAHN-teh pehr-SOH-neh sah-REH-steh]
💬 Usage Tip: [Sareste] literally means "would you be," but for numbers in a reservation it means "how many would there be?" You can answer with the matching form [saremmo]: [Saremmo in otto].
Phrase Breakdown
Quante persone
KWAHN-teh pehr-SOH-neh
how many people
Used to ask for the number of people.
Quante persone siete?
How many people are you?
Words in this phrase
Quante
[KWAHN-teh]
how many
Asks about the number of guests.
Quante persone sareste per la prenotazione di domenica?
How many people would you be for Sunday’s reservation?
persone
[pehr-SOH-neh]
people
Refers to the guests included in the booking.
Le persone sarebbero dodici in totale.
The people would be twelve in total.
sareste
[sah-REH-steh]
would you be
A polite conditional used in service situations.
Sareste interessati a una sala semi privata?
Would you be interested in a semi-private room?
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