How to Say ‘For how many people?’ in Mexican Spanish
¿Para cuántas personas sería?
PAH-rah KWAHN-tahs pehr-SOH-nahs seh-REE-ah
[PAH-rah KWAHN-tahs pehr-SOH-nahs seh-REE-ah]
💬 Usage Tip: In reservation talk, [sería] often softens the question rather than literally meaning future or conditional time. You'll hear the same pattern in [¿Cuál sería su nombre?] for a polite [What's your name?].
Phrase Breakdown
Para
[PAH-rah]
for
Used in the question asking the size of the party.
¿Para cuántas personas sería? la reservación de hoy?
For how many people would today's reservation be?
cuántas
[KWAHN-tahs]
how many
Question word for amount or number, agreeing with personas.
¿Para cuántas personas sería? la reservación de hoy?
For how many people would today's reservation be?
personas
[pehr-SOH-nahs]
people
Plural noun referring to guests in the reservation.
¿Para cuántas personas sería? la reservación de hoy?
For how many people would today's reservation be?
Sería?
seh-REE-ah
would it be?
Conditional form used politely to ask for the number.
¿Sería para hoy?
Would it be for today?
Words in this phrase
sería
[seh-REE-ah]
would it be
Polite conditional form used when asking about reservation details.
¿Para cuántas personas sería? la reservación de hoy?
For how many people would today's reservation be?
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