How to politely ask to repeat information in Spanish

To politely ask someone to repeat information in Spanish, you can use phrases like:

• ¿Podría repetirlo, por favor? (Could you please repeat that?)
• Disculpe, no entendí bien, ¿puede repetir? (Excuse me, I didn’t understand well, can you repeat?)
• Perdón, ¿me puede repetir eso? (Sorry, can you repeat that to me?)
• ¿Me podría decirlo de nuevo, por favor? (Could you tell me that again, please?)
• Lo siento, no escuché bien, ¿puede repetir? (Sorry, I didn’t hear well, can you repeat?)

These expressions use polite forms such as “podría” and “puede” and include “por favor” to show politeness and respect. Using polite question formats with words like “disculpe” or “perdón” also softens the request and shows courtesy. These are common and appropriate in formal or everyday settings to ask for repetition politely in Spanish.

References

• Después de usted: Variation and Change in a Spanish Tripartite Politeness System

• Facilitating the Communication of Politeness through Fine-Grained Paraphrasing

• Asking the Obvious: Other-Repeats as Requests for Reconfirmation

• VERBAL POLITENESS AS A REGULATOR OF VERBAL INTERACTIONS

• Cortesía y prosodia en el español conversacional de San Antonio de Texas

• Rythm-forming, functional and pragmatic potential and immanence of repetitions in the modern Spanish language

• Metapragmatic First-Order Politeness in Peninsular Spanish

• Mitigation Strategies in Colloquial Conversations: A Contrastive Approach in European, Cuban, Mexican, Argentinian and Chilean Spanish

• Dialogical and monological functions of the discourse marker bueno in spoken and written Spanish

• Vuestra atención, por favor ‘your attention, please’. Some remarks on the usage and history of plural vuestro/a in Cusco Spanish (Peru)

• How to Ask Good Questions? Try to Leverage Paraphrases