callase porfavor

Question

does this means be quite or shut up.is this polite or not?

Answer 1

The correct forms are:

Cállate (cállate tú)

Cállese (cállese usted)

It is a little bit rude, but you can soften it by saying: por favor, and the intonaition of voice.

Answer 2

I think that the natives here have said before that it is Shut up and, if not rude, then extremely forceful. A teacher addressing the class might use ¡Silencio! rather than ¡Cállense! for example, but I would suppose that context would be the deciding point.

Por favor is two words.

Answer 3

I doubt very much if the written form of the imperfect subjunctive was being used. Moreover, it is completely irrelevant to the question. What is likely is the spelling was a typo or an error. The questioner wants to know the appropriate context for callarse. In other words, as gfreed said, it is forceful, but not as rude as shut up in English.

Understanding the difference between what you meant and what you said is very important when learning a language: pretty much the opposite of irrelevant. - lorenzo9, Feb 28, 2011

When someone doesn´t know the meaning of a simple verb like callarse, then explaining the subjunctive will just confuse them and thus in this case it´s irrelevat. Were it a more advanced question, yes it´s relevant. Best to stick to basics. - pedrofranklin, Mar 1, 2011

Answer 4

Cállate means shut up. Callase is the imperfect subjunctive of to be quiet.

I think they meant "Cállese", which is just the Ud. form... - Goldie_Miel, Feb 28, 2011