por favor
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Galician
[edit]Adverb
[edit]Interjection
[edit]Portuguese
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]
Audio: (file) - Hyphenation: por‧fa‧vor
Adverb
[edit]por favor (not comparable)
- please (as a polite request)
- please (as an affirmative to an offer)
- please (as an expression of annoyance or impatience)
- please (as a request)
Interjection
[edit]- please (interjection to make commands more polite)
- Synonyms: faz favor, se faz favor, por gentileza, por obséquio
Usage notes
[edit]In Portugal, both por favor and se faz favor are commonly used. As an impersonal and fixed expression por favor can be perceived as slightly more neutral.[1]
References
[edit]Spanish
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]- po favó (eye dialect)
- porfa (contraction)
- porfis (contraction)
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /poɾ faˈboɾ/ [poɾ faˈβ̞oɾ]
Audio: (file) Audio (Colombia): (file) - Syllabification: por fa‧vor
Interjection
[edit]- please
- Synonyms: (colloquial) porfa, (colloquial) por faplís
- Quisiera una mesa por favor.
- I would like a table, please.
- (dialectal) you're welcome
See also
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “por favor”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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