Hello everyone and
welcome to the blog! :)
Today I want to show
you how to ask for help in Spanish. This is one of the most important
things you should learn when learning a new language.
As usual, I will write
a pronunciation guide in parenthesis, but you can always check the tables I created to help you with Spanish Pronunciation. (*Update: The page with these tables doesn't currently exist, since I had to delete the spanish blog. I am remaking everything in this blog. I will update when I have the page ready again.)
Let's begin. I'll
start by giving you the translations to both the noun and verb for 'help':
Ayuda (ah-joo-dah) - Help (noun)
Ayudar (ah-joo-dahr) - To help (verb)
Now I'll show you
five phrases to ask for help:
1) Permiso, ¿me puede
ayudar? - Excuse me, can you help me?
*Use this when you
need to ask something in a place, like directions, for example. You can add 'por favor'
('please') too:
Permiso, ¿me
puede ayudar? Por favor
Permiso, ¿por
favor me puede ayudar?
Por
favor, ¿me puede ayudar?
Casual
variations:
¿Me
puedes ayudar? - Can you help me?
¿Puedes
ayudarme? - Can you help me?
¿Mira,
me puedes ayudar? - Hey, can you help me?
* You can of course
add 'por favor' to all of these.
2) Necesito ayuda - I
need help
*Again, you can also
add 'por favor', especially if you're approaching a person on the street in a
place.
3)
Ayúdeme por favor - Please help me
4)
¿Alguien me puede ayudar? - Can someone help me?
5) Ayuda - Help
*If you find yourself
sick or in a dire situation in public, sometimes all you can say is just
'help'.
*Variations of this:
(all of these translate to 'help me')
Ayúdenme
Ayúdame
Ayúdeme (*This is a
formal version)
*You will often see
these written with exclamation marks ¡Ayúdenme!
There are also the
expressions:
¿Me
puedes dar una mano? - Can you give me a hand?
*A
more formal version can be: ¿Me puede dar una mano? Or ¿Me da
una mano?
*More
casual versions:
¿Me
das una mano?
¿Puedes
darme una mano?
Dame
una mano - Give me a hand
*A
more formal version: Deme una mano, or, Deme una mano, por favor (also 'Por
favor, deme una mano)
Préstame tu ayuda -
Lend me your help
*Also: Préstame
ayuda
This one is more
casual, and honestly, I rarely hear it.
This is it for now! Al
always, I hope you find this lesson useful, and easy to understand. If you have
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Thank you for reading,
and have a nice day :)
Until next time!
