what is German for Are you going to the pub? Thanks in anticipation - sorry this is all title but I don't have a box for question ???

[Noseyparker]

[MarkRae]

Gehst du zum Wirtshaus? (If you're talking to one person you know well).
Geht Ihr zum Wirtshaus? (If you're talking to more than one person you know well).
Gehen Sie zum Wirtshaus? (If you're talking to one or more person you don't know well).

[Hopkirk]

I thought it was ARE .... YOU .... GOING ....TO .... THE ....PUB?

[jno]

I seem to recall Kneipe as being close to 'pub', but someone who can speak proper German might like to correct me. I think Wirtshaus has a slightly formal air, like 'hostelry'.

[MarkRae]

Die Kneipe is a slang (though very common) word for pub, more or less the equivalent of the English 'boozer'.

Das Wirtshaus is the word for pub, inn or tavern.

It's important to remember that most of Europe doesn't really have the concept of pubs in the way that we have in the UK...

[shaneystar2]

Wirtshaus ? Hahaa...
In all the nearly 38 years of being married to a German ,living there and having lots of family and friends there I have never ever heard anybody refer to a pub as as a Wirtshaus. It's a Kneipe or Gaststätte .Or to be really pedantic a Wirtschaft .
Concept or not anyone asking where the nearest Wirtshaus was would get a strange look form your common or garden German I'm afraid .They don't all go about speaking Hochdeutsch you know .

[MarkRae]

> They don't all go about speaking Hochdeutsch you know.

No they don't, just as they don't all go about speaking Plattdeutsch, nor Schwab or whatever...

The OP didn't ask for colloquial / slang German...

[Hopkirk]

Mark can give the criticism, but can't take it.

[Quizmonkey]

I agree with Kneipe - it was all that was used when I lived in Germany. It doesn't equate to 'boozer' (wrong register) but to 'pub'.

[Bambi_1]

Kneipe, most definitely! I've never heard anyone here refer to Wirtshaus. Maybe Gaststaette, but I make a weekly foray to the Kneipe and every year there are towns around here that hold a Kneipefest (pubcrawl with music in each Kneipe and a bus laid on to shuttle you around). I'm in the East, so maybe it's an East/West thing and they think a Kneipe is common in the West!