por favor

por favor

1. please

por favor

1. please

por favor (Hebrew spelling פור פ׳אב׳ור)

1. please; kindly (I beseech you)

   Synonyms: bevakashá, por plazer, si te plaze

   • 1996, Sara Benveniste Benrey, edited by Yossi Benbenisty, Espertando el djudeo espanyol: poemas realidas i philosophia, kantes, sketches, piesas de teatro‎^[2], Yossi Benbenisty, page 190:

     Kayades por favor.

     Be quiet, please.

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• Hyphenation: por‧fa‧vor

por favor (not comparable)

1. please (as a polite request)
2. please (as an affirmative to an offer)
3. please (as an expression of annoyance or impatience)
4. please (as a request)

por favor

1. please (interjection to make commands more polite)

   Synonyms: faz favor, se faz favor, por gentileza, por obséquio

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]

• “por favor”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

• po favó (eye dialect)
• porfa, porfis (contraction)
• xfa (Internet slang, text messaging)

• IPA^(key): /poɾ faˈboɾ/ [poɾ faˈβ̞oɾ]

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• Syllabification: por fa‧vor

por favor

1. please

   Synonyms: (colloquial) porfa, (colloquial) por faplís

   Quisiera una mesa por favor.

   I would like a table, please.

2. (dialectal) you're welcome

• gracias (“thank you”)
• favor de

• “por favor”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025