To work for tips

[vcourchene]

Hello!

I am a street performer who relies on being tipped by tourists. I am trying to learn a little bit of each popular language so that I can communicate with more people. But, I have no German language knowledge what so ever! I take a lot of pictures with people and was wondering how to say both:

"We work only on/for tips." and "We take pictures for tips."

Thanks in advance!

 

[perpend]

It's a little tricky, since "tips" in a restaurant would mostly likely be "Trinkgeld", but on the street, you may want to say "donation", but I don't know what would be a good word for that in German.

 

[vcourchene]

It's a little tricky, since "tips" in a restaurant would mostly likely be "Trinkgeld", but on the street, you may want to say "donation", but I don't know what would be a good word for that in German.

At the moment I say "Oh Germany - Deutschland! Ich liebe dich!!! We take pictures for "trinkgeld"... danke schön!

Germans are awesome and find it adorable but I'd love to be able to say a full sentence in German. Is this correct to say:

"Wir arbeiten für trinkgeld." or "Wir machen ein photos für trinkgeld."

 

[perpend]

If I had to choose, I would probably say "Wir lassen uns gegen Trinkgeld / eine Spende fotografieren".

This is non-native advice. I'm not entirely sure what's said "on the street".

 

[vcourchene]

Thank you!! German is so confusing to me but I love the way it sounds. I'll try this out

 

[Gernot Back]

"We work only on/for tips." and "We take pictures for tips."

• Wir arbeiten als Gegenleistung für Spenden (von Passanten).
  
• Wir fotografieren Sie/Passanten/Touristen gegen eine kleine Spende.

 

[perpend]

I think the street performers are getting photographed, with tourists, Gernot.

 

[Gernot Back]

I think the street performers are getting photographed, with tourists, Gernot.

Well in that case it would be:

• Wir lassen uns gegen eine kleine Spende mit Ihnen fotografieren.