Bitte

[Sommer]

(German)

German word for ask.

Can also be used as please, like in the sentence: eine [Currywurst], [bitte] (= a [curried] sausage please).

[Bitte] is also used by a waiter or someone offering a service to attract the customers attention. We might translate it by Can I help you?.

4.You would also say bitte when handing things over to somebody. In this context it would mean Here you are. You would expect the person to whom you were handing over the object to respond by saying [danke] (see below).

Bitte is also used as a response to danke, which is the German equivalent of thanks or thank you. Bitte then means Youre welcome! or [Dont mention it]!. This acknowledgement of thanks is not simply a matter of politeness - it can be impolite not to follow a danke with a bitte, since to a German speaker you may appear to be refusing their thanks.

[Danke] is often followed by either schön or [sehr]. If so, then the bitte response will be similarly modified. The following table listens the pattern of responses: