Team meetings at work: Asking someone to repeat or clarify a point
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Key Phrases
Desculpe, tem um minuto?
Excuse me, do you have a minute?
Pode repetir mais devagar, por favor?
Could you repeat that more slowly, please?
Muito obrigado pela ajuda.
Thank you very much for the help.
Skills You'll Learn
Politely asking for attention and asking questions in a work meeting
Pedir atenção e fazer perguntas educadamente numa reunião de trabalho
Asking someone to repeat or clarify information (dates, names)
Pedir para repetir ou esclarecer informação (datas, nomes)
Thanking someone and saying goodbye appropriately
Agradecer e despedir-se de forma apropriada
Lesson Roleplay
Imagine you're at work in an office in Portugal. You want to ask your colleague about the project deadline you missed in the meeting.
Bom dia, Ana. Desculpe, tem um minuto?
Good morning, Ana. Sorry, do you have a minute?
Bom dia, Emily . Claro, diga.
Good morning, Emily. Of course, go ahead.
Na reunião, não percebi bem a data do projeto.
In the meeting, I didn't quite catch the project date.
É até sexta-feira, dia quinze.
It's due by Friday, the fifteenth.
Pode repetir mais devagar, por favor?
Could you repeat that more slowly, please?
Lesson Vocabulary & Phrases
Desculpe
des-koo-lpe
Excuse me
🇵🇹 Desculpe is the polite form you'd use with a colleague you don't know well or a manager. With close teammates, desculpa is common.
See breakdown →Tem um minuto?
tayng oong mee-NOO-too
Do you have a minute?
💬 There's no word for "you" here: tem alone does the job, and it's the polite form. Same pattern: Pode ajudar? "Can you help?"
See breakdown →Desculpe, tem um minuto?
des-koo-lpe tayng oong mee-NOO-too
Sorry, do you have a minute?
Claro, diga.
KLAH-roo DEE-gah
Of course, go ahead.
💬 diga literally means "say", but here it works as an invitation to speak, like "go ahead" or "I'm listening". You'll also hear it when people answer the phone.
See breakdown →Na reunião
nuh hee-oo-nee-OWN
In the meeting
💬 em + a merges into na. With a masculine word it becomes no: no escritório "in the office".
See breakdown →Não percebi bem
NOWN per-seh-BEE BEHNG
I didn't quite catch
💬 In Portugal, perceber is the everyday verb for "to understand", not just "to perceive". Não percebi "I didn't understand" is the natural way to say you missed something.
See breakdown →A data
uh DAH-tuh
The date
Do projeto
doo proo-ZHEH-too
Of the project
💬 do is de + o squeezed together. With a feminine word it becomes da: da reunião "of the meeting".
See breakdown →A data do projeto
uh DAH-tuh doo proo-ZHEH-too
The project date
💬 Portuguese puts the main thing first and the owner after: "the date of the project". Swap in: o fim do mês "the end of the month".
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