Visiting Germany is all fun and games until you wake up in the morning and realize that you don't know how to get your daily dose of caffeine. But don't despair! Here is a simple but complete guide for all you coffee addicts.
Ordering a coffee in German is not a very difficult task. But a very essential one for us caffeine addicts.
In this blog post, we'll show you how to order a coffee in German, and if you like your coffee with milk, we might even have just enough time to cover that too.
At a very basic level, ordering a coffee at a café in Germany goes something like this:
... or you might just say:
Easy peasy, right?
But let's say you want to order a latte in German - what would you say? Or what if you wanted some oat milk, extra sugar or a decaf flat white?
Let's find out!
Before we explore some more phrases and expressions, let's start with some useful nouns that deal with coffee and everything about it - things like coffee, milk, foam and sugar:
Coffee in German is der Kaffee
.
The German word for milk is die Milch
.
So if you wanted to say "A coffee with milk, please", you would just say:
Einen Kaffee mit Milch, bitte.
But what about espressos, cappuccinos and lattes? Let's have a look at those ones next!