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How do you say 'please' in Portuguese?

Por favor, in Brazil and Portugal.

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  1. Por favor ✔
  2. Por nada
  3. Pois não

Why: Por favor is please everywhere. In Portugal you will also hear se faz favor. Pois não is a Brazilian clerk's 'certainly', and por nada means for nothing.

Huh, didn't know that: The FSI course shows por favor in the very first hotel dialog.

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Why was the passport polite? It always said por favor before stamping.
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Answer: Por favor. Por favor is please everywhere. In Portugal you will also hear se faz favor. Pois não is a Brazilian clerk's 'certainly', and por nada means for nothing.

  1. FSI Brazilian Portuguese FAST, Volume 1 (Foreign Service Institute) fsi-language-courses-media.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/languages/Portuguese/FAST/Volume%201/FSI%20-%20Portuguese%20FAST%20-%20Volume%201.pdf
    por favor
    Checked 2026-10-11.
  2. Wiktionary: se faz favor en.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?title=se_faz_favor&action=raw
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    Checked 2026-10-11.

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