"Don't you want to introduce us?"

Translation: Magst du uns nicht einmal vorstellen?

[wejrowski]

I don't understand the einmal here

[nathan2010]

Me neither. Can a native speaker please shed some light on this?

[koboldmaki]

We use (ein)mal a lot in coversation, as a filler or because it just feels right sometimes, but this sentence is correct without the einmal, especially as a translation of "don't you want to introduce us?", e.g. if:
You and the person you’re with bump into a friend of theirs and they don't introduce you to their friend, so you say “magst du uns nicht vorstellen?” It's perfectly fine without the einmal in this case.

I thought of a context in which the einmal would make sense, but in my opinion the English sentence doesn't indicate that this is what's meant:
You talk to someone about a friend of theirs who sounds really awesome and you’d like to get to know that friend. - “Magst du uns nicht (ein)mal vorstellen?” = “Don’t you want to introduce us sometime?"
(Note that even in this context the sentence is still correct without the einmal, it just sounds more complete with it.)

[nathan2010]

Thanks for the reply. I knew about "mal" being used as a filler, I hear it all of the time, but never connected it to "einmal"!

[helenvee]

Why is "Wollen Sie" not as correct "Willst du"?

[tholenst2]

"Wollen Sie uns nicht einmal vorstellen?" should be ok, in my opinion, even though I'd rather say: "Möchten Sie uns nicht einmal vorstellen?" in order to be more polite.

[brothertaddeus]

Exactly. If "Willst du uns vorstellen?" is accepted, then there's no reason why "Wollen Sie uns vorstellen?" should not also be accepted.

[maxdoppke]

Why use the verb "want" if all of the options use the verb for "like?"

[BigBob8989]

"Möchten Sie uns nicht vorstellen" is not correct? Why? This sucks.

[Vindalf]

Because the verb in question is "want", not "would like". Möchten is subjunctive

[Gildesh]

Möchten Sie should also be correct

[Reignman]

I don't quite grasp the placement of "nicht" sometimes- when does it go as close to the last verb as possible ("Willst du uns nicht vorstellen") and when does it go right after the first verb ("Willst du nicht uns vorstellen")?

[philster043]

I just learned this yesterday, but when there is an infinitive verb (in this case, "vorstellen"), the "nicht" comes before the last verb in the sentence. I am not sure why it comes before "einmal" though.

[PatriciaJH]

It comes after the direct or indirect object.

See here, search down on "placement of nicht":
http://www.dartmouth.edu/~german/Grammatik/WordOrder/WordOrder1.html

[Kavadera]

Thanks, very helpful

[Reignman]

That is helpful, thanks!

[AdrianJosh]

Einmal is used a lot but is confusing

[filbeck]

I thought that, since the english sentence is "Don't you want to introduce us?", it would require a "nicht" somewhere. I put "Willst du uns vorstellen nicht?" and got wrong. Am I right?