Stop ... How a local would ask

Question

This may have been asked on here before .. ? To ask a taxi driver in Spain to stop here . ? Alto ?, dejar ? para , ?

Puedes para ahore . Por favor ...

is my go to line .As i was using this in Madrid last week and he kept going ?? or was this just a taxi drivers ploy .. ja ja

No, to polite, not a ploy. Use English ' Stop!' or ' Pare!, leave out por favor and puedes, keep it to most basic form to avoid misunderstandings. - annierats, May 26, 2016

Answer 1

Puedes para ahore . Por favor .

Puedes parar ahora would be can you (informal) stop now. What you said might be off enough that combined with a non-native accent it was uninterpretable.

Podría (usted) parar aquí might be more polite for Could you (formal) stop here.

See this link, it has a video of someone saying it:

Video pronunciation

I have not been to Spain and am not a native speaker, so I cannot attest to what is most usual there. I know in Spain they use tú more and por favor less than I am used to.

But clearly if it were not a valid option, someone would not post a video of it.

The link address as I had to convert it to make it work (but the blue link above does work).

https://www.mightyverse.com/en/phrases/Could+you+stop+here+please?/es-es/Podría+parar+aquí+por+favor?

Bosque , watch my link! - annierats, May 26, 2016

Your link is beautifully spoken. Mine is real life emergency. - annierats, May 26, 2016

I like JulianChivi's. I think it would serve us "gringos" well ;-) - Jubilado, May 26, 2016

annierats-'para te' will stay in my head always after the video ,ja ja , not alway the best way to ask to stop , Thank you - mrbluesky, May 27, 2016

Answer 2

In Mexico we just say "Aquí me bajo (por favor)". I´m sure in Spain it would be completely understood as well.

Interesante pregunta, ¿No? Pero aquí me bajo. ¡Gracias! - Jubilado, May 26, 2016

During our recent stay in Ecuador, every taxista we encountered responded to "Aquí." Sometimes we added "a la derecha" or "a la izquierda" if we were on one of the many one-way streets. - AnnRon, May 26, 2016

Answer 3

I would say:¡Párate ! ¡Quiero bajar! ( I want to get out here)

¡Pare! or párese) is more polite, that is also ok. dramatic evidence

I think yours would work nicely, especially when there is no time for politeness, but I would not use the hijole plus the word that follows with a cab driver who is driving me in a foreign country. :D - bosquederoble, May 26, 2016

Even though I did note that people are less polite in Spain. :) - bosquederoble, May 26, 2016

Great link!! - Mardle, May 26, 2016