Beginnerdailypolite

Phrase loop

麻烦你

Sorry to trouble you; could you please... Learn the phrase inside a real situation, then log it for recall instead of letting it die in a vocabulary list.

Sorry to trouble you; could you please...
Practice recall Open Practice

Sayable phrase

Sorry to trouble you; could you please...

A phrase only matters if you can imagine saying it this week. Otherwise it is just decorative storage.

01 Play the phrase Listen once before reading too hard. Your brain loves pretending it knows tones.
02 Attach a scene Use the context and examples below so the phrase has a place to live.
03 Recall later Log it for Practice, then use the phrase recall quiz to prove the phrase survives without this page open.

Reading supports

Use these after the first listen. Pinyin is scaffolding; English is context; neither should become a sofa.

Usage

Makes a request sound softer. In a project deadline is close, it helps the sentence sound like real spoken Mandarin instead of a stiff translation.

Best context: a project deadline is close

Examples

In this moment, you can say: Sorry to trouble you; could you please... When a project deadline is close, Sorry to trouble you; could you please... sounds natural. Sorry to trouble you; could you please... We can talk about it later.