uketuke de syousyou omati itadakemasu ka to iwaremasita.

受付 means reception, the reception desk, or the front desk.

The particle で marks the place where an action happens. Since the action is waiting, 受付で means at the reception/front desk.

So:

• 受付で待つ = wait at reception

A learner may expect に, but で is the normal choice here because it focuses on the location where the waiting takes place.

少々 means a little or for a short while.

In this sentence, it means something like:

• for a moment
• briefly
• just a little while

It is more formal and polite than ちょっと, so it is very common in customer-service language.

A very common set phrase is:

• 少々お待ちください
• 少々お待ちいただけますか

Both mean please wait a moment, with different levels of politeness.

お待ち comes from the verb 待つ.

Breakdown:

• dictionary form: 待つ
• stem: 待ち
• polite prefix: お
• so: お待ち

In very polite request patterns, Japanese often uses:

• お + verb stem + いただけますか

So:

• お待ちいただけますか = Could you please wait?

You could also say 待っていただけますか, and that is grammatical, but お待ちいただけますか sounds more formal and more like business or service Japanese.

いただけますか is a very polite way to make a request.

Here the pattern is:

• お + verb stem + いただけますか

So:

• お待ちいただけますか

Literally, it is something like:

• Would I be able to receive the favor of your waiting?

Natural English:

• Could you please wait?

This is softer and more polite than a direct request like:

• 待ってください = please wait

So the sentence uses especially polite language.

The か belongs to the quoted sentence itself.

The original words being reported are:

• 受付で少々お待ちいただけますか

That is a polite question/request:

• Could you please wait a moment at reception?

After that, と marks the whole thing as what someone said.

So:

• ...いただけますか と 言われました

means:

• I was told / asked, Could you please wait ... ?

The か is not separate from 言われました. It is part of the quoted request.

と is the quotation particle.

It marks the content of what was said.

So in this sentence:

• 受付で少々お待ちいただけますか = the words spoken
• と = marks those words as a quote
• 言われました = was told / was asked

Japanese often does not need quotation marks in writing when と already makes the structure clear.

言われました is the passive form of 言う here.

So:

• 言いました = someone said
• 言われました = I was told / I was said to

In this sentence, the meaning is:

• I was told ...
• I was asked ...

This is a very common Japanese pattern:

• 〜と言われました = I was told that ... / I was told ...

It does not usually need to say who told you, because that is often understood from context.

It is the person telling the story — the speaker of 言われました.

Japanese leaves that unstated, but the implied meaning is:

• I was told to wait at the reception/front desk for a moment.

Inside the quote, the listener is the one who is supposed to wait. When the whole thing is reported with 言われました, that listener is understood to be me.

Grammatically, it is a quoted clause with と, and because it keeps the original polite wording 〜いただけますか, it feels close to direct quotation.

A very literal translation would be:

• I was told, Could you please wait a moment at the reception?

But in natural English, it is often smoother to translate it more indirectly:

• I was asked to wait a moment at the reception/front desk.

So it sits a little between direct and indirect speech in how we naturally translate it.

It is quite formal and polite.

The main clues are:

• 少々 instead of ちょっと
• お待ちいただけますか instead of 待ってください
• 言われました in polite past form

This sounds like something you might say when explaining what staff at a company, clinic, hotel, or office told you. It has a clear business/service tone.