Restaurant reservations (Advanced): Setting preferences for seating, such as indoor, outdoor, or specific views.

💬 [たいです] means "want to do," so you can swap in other verbs: [行きたいです] for "I want to go," [食べたいです] for "I want to eat." Here it attaches to [予約する], which becomes [予約したいです].

💬 [を予約したいです] uses [たいです] to say what you want to do in a polite way. You can reuse the pattern with other things before [を]: [席を予約したいです] or [個室を予約したいです].

💬 [名様] is a polite way to count guests in places like restaurants and hotels. Staff will often say [何人] in casual situations, but [何名様] sounds more customer-facing and respectful.

🇯🇵 This is standard service language, so you'll hear it from staff much more than you'll say it yourself. When answering, customers usually just give the number, like [四人です].

💬 [でしょうか] softens a question and makes it more polite than a plain [ですか]. You'll hear it a lot in service situations: [お名前は何でしょうか。] or [いつがよろしいでしょうか。]

💬 [何名様] is the polite set phrase for asking guest count. Adding [でしょうか] makes it even softer and more formal than a direct [何名ですか].

🇯🇵 This is classic polite staff phrasing in restaurants. A customer normally wouldn't repeat the whole sentence back—just answer with the number, like [二人です] or [四人です].

💬 [四人] is usually said (yo-nin), not (shi-nin). [四] often becomes (yo) in everyday counting, like [四時] (yo-ji) too.