por favor
Portuguese
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /puʁ faˈvoʁ/ [puh faˈvoh]
- (São Paulo) IPA(key): /puɾ faˈvoɾ/
- (Rio de Janeiro) IPA(key): /puʁ faˈvoʁ/ [puχ faˈvoχ]
- (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /puɻ faˈvoɻ/
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /puɾ fɐˈvoɾ/
- (Northern Portugal) IPA(key): /puɾ fɐˈboɾ/ [puɾ fɐˈβoɾ]
Audio (file) - Hyphenation: por‧fa‧vor
Adverb
Interjection
- please (interjection to make commands more polite)
- Synonyms: faz favor, se faz favor, por gentileza, por obséquio
Usage notes
In Portugal, both Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value) and se faz favor are commonly used. As an impersonal and fixed expression Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value) can be perceived as slightly more neutral.[1]
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /poɾ faˈboɾ/ [poɾ faˈβ̞oɾ]
Audio: (file) Audio (Colombia): (file) - Syllabification: por fa‧vor
Interjection
- please
- Synonyms: (colloquial) porfa, (colloquial) por faplís
- Quisiera una mesa por favor.
- I would like a table, please.
- (dialectal) you're welcome
Further reading
- “por favor”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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