Choose a destination, ticket, travel time and payment method.
Use formal Sie at the ticket counter.
A simulated trip from Bonn. Destinations, availability and fares are practice examples, not live DB information. Nothing is booked or purchased.
This is a fictional practice situation. The dialogue below follows one example path; interactive practice lets you choose other meanings, complete the grammar and listen to German audio.
Tell the clerk where you would like to go.
Ticket clerk
Guten Tag! Wohin möchten Sie fahren?
Hello! Where would you like to travel to?
One possible reply
Ich möchte nach Berlin fahren.
Use nach for travel to cities without articles: nach Berlin. The infinitive fahren goes at the end after möchte.
Read the grammar guideChoose a one-way or return journey.
Ticket clerk
Möchten Sie eine einfache Fahrt oder eine Hin- und Rückfahrt?
Would you like a one-way journey or a return journey?
One possible reply
Ich hätte gern eine einfache Fahrt, bitte.
Fahrt is feminine. The accusative article is eine: eine einfache Fahrt or eine Hin- und Rückfahrt.
Read the grammar guideChoose when to leave. For a return ticket, ask to return the next day.
Ticket clerk
Wann möchten Sie fahren?
When would you like to travel?
One possible reply
Ich möchte heute Vormittag fahren.
Heute and morgen do not need a preposition. Am is used with named days. Am nächsten Tag means on the following day.
Read the grammar guideChoose how many people are travelling and the class.
Ticket clerk
Für wie viele Personen und in welcher Klasse?
For how many people, and in which class?
One possible reply
Für eine Person, zweite Klasse, bitte.
Eine Person is singular; zwei Personen is plural. Erste Klasse and zweite Klasse are natural short replies to the class question.
Read the grammar guideSay whether your practice traveller has a BahnCard.
Ticket clerk
Haben Sie eine BahnCard?
Do you have a BahnCard?
One possible reply
Nein, ich habe keine BahnCard.
BahnCard is feminine. Use eine for a card, or keine to negate the noun. This simulation does not calculate discounts.
Read the grammar guideChoose how to pay for the simulated ticket.
Ticket clerk
Das macht 29 Euro. Möchten Sie bar oder mit Karte bezahlen?
That is the practice fare. Would you like to pay in cash or by card?
One possible reply
Ich möchte bar bezahlen.
Bar means in cash. Mit Karte means by card. There is no real payment in this exercise.
Read the grammar guideHier ist Ihre Fahrkarte. Gute Fahrt!
Here is your ticket. Have a good journey!