German numbers come at you fast in Berlin: a price at a bakery, a platform called out at Hauptbahnhof, the deposit on a bottle. This guide covers the one rule that makes them click (the small digit comes first), how prices and the comma work, what Gleis and the line numbers mean, and an interactive tool to build and hear any German number.

German station names can look like someone sat on a keyboard, but they are more predictable than they seem. Here is how to pronounce Berlin station names, built around the stops you will really use, with plain respellings and the sounds that catch visitors out.