Learn · Sentences Polite Requests

Could you hold this for me?

A2

Sentence

Narrator

Could you hold this for me?

Study notes

How to use in different contexts

Making a Request

Could you please hold this for me?

Formal Request

Would you be so kind as to hold this for me?

Informal Request

Hey, can you hold this a sec?

Requesting Help

I need a hand; could you hold this for me?

Rephrased versions

Formal

Please hold this item for me.

Casual

Hang onto this for me, will ya?

Simpler English

Hold this, please.

Phrases to learn

hold this

To keep or maintain possession of something temporarily.

for me

On behalf of or in place of the speaker.