What do you do if someone said something you don't know?

Question

What do you do if someone said something you don't know?

Answer 1

Hello Gafkig and Welcome to the SpanishDict forum

I think you mean if someone said something you don't ''understand''

You could say:

'Lo siento pero no entiendo'' = ''I am sorry but I don't understand''

or

''Lo siento pero no entiendo lo que ha(s) dicho''

= ''I am sorry but I don't understand what you have said''

or, more simply;

''¿Quiere(s) repitar la frase, más despacio, por favor?''

= 'Would you repeat the sentence more slowly, please?''

Just a tip for translating; when people are talking: try not to understand word for word what someone is saying or you could get so caught up with/stuck on some words and miss the general gist (heart) of what they are trying to communicate. This becomes easier to do with practice once you have built up a vocabulary of common'high frequency words which you can immediately understand without thinking about or translating each word in your mind as it is being spoken. I talk from expereience here

I hope this helps

Answer 2

Do you mean something like a word that I don't understand, or something that I don't know like my genetic sequence?

And for English learners, the sentence should be: "What would you do. . ." because "said" is in the subjunctive.

Answer 3

Listen and learn.