Restaurant reservations: Checking table availability for specific dates and times.

💬 [したいです] means "want to do" after the verb stem: [予約したいです] = "I want to reserve." You can reuse it with other actions too, like [食べたいです] for "I'd like to eat."

💬 [〜したいです] is a useful soft way to say what you want to do: [予約したいです], [変更したいです], [キャンセルしたいです]. In service situations it often comes across as "I'd like to..." rather than a blunt "I want to...".

💬 The [ご] makes [予約] more polite when talking to the customer: [ご予約]. You'll see the same pattern in service Japanese with words like [ご名前] and [ご希望].

🇯🇵 Staff use forms like [ご予約] to sound respectful toward the customer. You usually don't need to speak that politely about your own reservation unless you're choosing especially formal wording.

💬 [ですか] turns a statement into a polite question: [満席ですか] "Is it full?", [土曜日ですか] "Is it Saturday?" In speech, the [か] may sound light, but it still marks it as a question.

💬 Japanese often puts the question word first: [いつご予約ですか] literally "when reservation is it?" You can swap in other question words the same way, like [何名様ですか] and [何時ですか].