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¿Cómo?

Sorry? / What? / Pardon?

Conversation Fillers
Notes & Usage:

The most natural way to ask someone to repeat something. ¿Cómo? = sorry/pardon. More polite than ¿Qué? alone, though both are used.

See It in Context

—Te llamó Juan. —¿Cómo? No te escuché.

—Juan called you. —Sorry? I didn't hear you.

¿Cómo? ¿Puedes repetir eso?

Pardon? Can you repeat that?

—Se casaron. —¿Cómo? ¿En serio?

—They got married. —What? Seriously?