Haben Sie mal 4 Minuten Zeit? - What is the English translation? English translators help English translators with the translation of Haben Sie mal 4 Minuten Zeit?

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231 months ago

memdata (a guest user) asked this question:

Language pair:	German > English
Subject:	Other
Level of diffculty:	Easy / medium
Word or term in question:	Haben Sie mal 4 Minuten Zeit?
Context:	Haben Sie mal 4 Minuten Zeit?
Keywords:	-

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231 months ago

wrote:

do you have four minutes?

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231 months ago

Nicola Devlin wrote:

Could you spare (us) 4 minutes of your time

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231 months ago

Nicola Devlin wrote:

Have you got 4 minutes?

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231 months ago

wrote:

That is also the way I'd say it, or if you want to be more formal: Do you have 4 minutes?

231 months ago

Nicola Devlin wrote:

I don't think so, "Have you got 4 minutes" cold mean for anything, but I think people want to know if you have time for them. so we always say "can you spare us 4 minutes of your time" - much more polite.

231 months ago

Nicola Devlin wrote:

I'm assuming, like Jack, that the original is light-hearted and informal, hence my: "Have you got 4 minutes?" Und warum "4 Minuten?" Usually we would ask, "Have you got a minute?" even if we needed or wanted 3 or 4 of them. I find Nicola's version to be stiff and formal, like "Pardon me, would you be ever so kind as to gratify me with four minutes of your precious time."

231 months ago

Murad AWAD wrote:

Do you have 4 minutes of your time

My comment:

Or do you have additional 4 minutes of your time.

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231 months ago

Murad AWAD wrote:

Do you still have 4 minutes of your time?

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