Spanish · Chapter 41 · Lesson 9 · Grammar primer
Politeness: softening requests
How to ask without sounding blunt: the conditional (¿podria?, me gustaria), quisiera, ¿te importaria...?, hedges like si no es molestia, and the bluntness ladder from Dame to ¿Seria tan amable de darme?
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