In my native language, it’s very popular to ask for availability of the clothes in the store, like:
- “Do you have this item of ... size?”.
Machine translation would propose
- “Haben Sie ... Größe?”
However I have been argued that it’s not cool to use such sentence translated one into one to German and that it spots my tourist’s nature.
In English it would mean that I ask the salesman whether he owns such an item by himself (for personal use). It would be more appropriate to ask „Is there ...?“
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In German that should sound like „Gibt es ...?“
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Is that the same for a shopping situation? What is the perfect way to ask questions about item's availability?