can anyone translate the german word

[cutekids]

btw,would eins+sechs+neun = 16???!
kids'homework.....!

1 + 6 + 9

sorry...that was meant to ask if anyone could translate the german would "bitte" for me (pardon/please?)

Correct!

thankyou Iota and Desiderata!
how about bitte?

Also,how do you WRITE 16 in German....sorry to pick your brains!

Bitte is please and I think 16 is sechszehn (six ten literally...)

bitte = please

sechzehn (no s)

Sechsehn

Sorry, emk. You're right.

If you make a request and you use the word "bitte", it means "please" (i.e. can you help me please?).
If you hand someone something like a cup of tea, you say "bitte" meaning "here you are".
If someone thanks you, the response is "bitte" or some variant of it like "bitte sehr" meaning "you're welcome"

thankyou so..ooo much everyone. been googling and couldn't find either answer believe it or not!

can't bitte also be a sort of "excuse me".

bitte when you think about is a mighty fine word. I was just thinking (although cutekid could do without it I think
) that if you in a shop or somewhere, people will ask "bitte?" meaning "yes?" or "can I help you" just inviting you to speak IYSWIM.

CK here's a handy site for you
babelfish.altavista.com/tr

I know that schmetterling is butterfly and enterkuchen is duckling... does that help??

although I was scraping up my memories of O level German, not using Babelfish

zwiebeln is onions

found that out in a restaurant in Bonn

Don't fancy your chances of being served an Enterkuchen but it sounds nice

Bonn! That's my home town... (feeling wistful)
What did you do there, iota?

(Enterkuchen? )

Oh dear, DH (who allegedly has degree in German) has been teaching DD and I've obviously heard wrong Please tell me what it really is so I can correct him and sound clever.

Entchen

That'll throw him out when he gets back... me speaking better German than him

emkana - it was many years ago - I was 15 and on a youth exchange link (Oxford and Bonn were twin towns - I presume that they still are?)

Bonn was the capital in those days

Yes still twinned.

Did you have a good time?