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Pronunciation [edit]
Etymology 1 [edit]
Middle English plesen, plaisen, from Old French plaise, conjugated form of plaisir or plaire, from Latin placēre (“to please, to seem good”)[1], from the Proto-Indo-European *plā-k- (“wide and flat”). Displaced native Middle English quemen, queamen (“to please”) (from Old English cwēman (“to please”)), Middle English biluvien (“to please, delight”) (from Middle English bi-, be- + luvien (“to love”)), Middle English liken (“to like, please”) (from Old English līcian (“to please, be like”)), Middle English lusten, listen (“to be pleasing, delight”) (from Old English lystan (“to please”)).
Alternative forms [edit]
- pleace (used from the Middle English period up to the 15th century, and in Scots until the 17th century)
please (third-person singular simple present pleases, present participle pleasing, simple past and past participle pleased)
- (transitive) To make happy or satisfy; to give pleasure.
- Her presentation pleased the executives.
- (intransitive, ergative) To desire; to will; to be pleased.
- Just do as you please.
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Translations [edit]
to make happy or satisfy
- American Sign Language: OpenB@Chest-PalmBack RoundSurface
- Arabic: رضى (ar) (raḍā)
- Armenian: գոհացնել (hy) (gohacʿnel)
- Catalan: plaure (ca), complaure (ca), agradar (ca)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 討好 (cmn), 讨好 (cmn) (tǎohǎo) (toady), 滿足 (cmn), 满足 (cmn) (mǎnzú) (satisfy)
- Czech: potěšit (cs), udělat radost (cs), uspokojit (cs), vyhovět (cs), pokládat za vhodné (cs)
- Dalmatian: placar
- Dutch: (satisfy) bevallen (nl), (give pleasure) behagen (nl)
- Esperanto: plaĉi (eo)
- Fijian: yalo vinaka (fj)
- Finnish: viihdyttää (fi), miellyttää (fi)
- French: plaire (fr)
- Friulian: plasê a, contentâ, apajâ
- German: gefallen (de), rechtmachen (de)
- Greek: ευχαριστώ (el) (efkharisto), τέρπω (el) (terpo), δίνω ευχαρίστηση (el) (dino efkharistisi)
- Interlingua: placer (ia)
- Italian: accontentare (it), piacere (it)
- Japanese: 喜ばす (ja) (よろこばす, yorokobásu)
- Jèrriais: pliaithe
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- Korean: 기쁘게 하다 (ko) (gibbeuge hada)
- Latin: iuvāre (la), placēre (la)
- Macedonian: задоволува (mk) (zadovóluva), допаѓа (mk) (dópaǵa), бендисува (mk) (bendísuva)
- Nahuatl: yolceuiz (nah)
- Norwegian: behage (no), være til lags (no), tiltale (no) (?)
- Occitan: agradar (oc)
- Polish: uszczęśliwiać (pl), zadowalać (pl)
- Portuguese: agradar (pt)
- Romanian: a mulțumi (ro), a satisface (ro), a incânta (ro), (literally to be pleasing, but used to say "to like") plăcea (ro)
- Russian: радовать (ru) (rádovatʹ) (gladden), угождать (ru) (ugoždátʹ),нравиться (ru) (nrávitʹsja) (appeal, be liked), доставлять удовольствие (dostovljátʹ udovólʹstvije) , удовлетворять (ru) (udovletvorjátʹ) (satisfy), тешить (ru) (téšitʹ)
- Scottish Gaelic: còrd ri (gd), sàsaich (gd), riaraich (gd)
- Serbo-Croatian: zadovoljiti (sh), ugoditi (sh)
- Slovene: zadovoljiti (sl)
- Spanish: gustar (es), agradar (es)
- Swedish: behaga (sv), glädja (sv), tillfredsställa (sv), ställa till freds (sv), ställa till frids (sv)
- Vietnamese: làm ơn (vi)
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Etymology 2 [edit]
Short for if you please, an intransitive, ergative form taken from if it please you,[1][2] which replaced pray.
Alternative forms [edit]
- (for the exaggerated way it is often pronounced as the expression of annoyance) puh-lease
Adverb [edit]
please (not comparable)
- Used to make a polite request.
- Please, pass the bread.
- Would you please sign this form?
- Could you tell me the time, please?
- Used as an affirmative to an offer.
- —May I help you? —Please.
- An expression of annoyance or impatience.
- Oh, please, do we have to hear that again?
Translations [edit]
interjection to make a polite request
- Abkhaz: please add this translation if you can
- Adangme: i kpa mo pɛ
- Afrikaans: asseblief (af)
- Aleut: puzaalusti
- American Sign Language: OpenB@Chest-PalmBack RoundSurface
- Arabic: من فضلك (ar) (min fáḍlak, min fáḍlik) (to a man / to a woman), رجاءً (ar) (rajāʾan), لو سمحت (ar) (law samaḥt), لطفًا (ar) (luṭfan), أرجوك (ar) (ʾarjūka / ʾarjūki) (to a man / to a woman)
- Armenian: խնդրեմ (hy) (xndrem)
- Avar: please add this translation if you can
- Basque: mesedez (eu), faborez (eu), faborez (eu), otoi (eu), arren (eu)
- Belarusian: калі ласка (be) (kalí láska), прашу (be) (prašú)
- Bengali: প্লিজ (bn) (pliz), প্লীজ (bn) (pliz)
- Breton: mar plij (br)
- Bulgarian: моля (bg) (mólja)
- Burmese: ပါ (my) (pa)
- Catalan: si us plau (ca)
- Chechen: please add this translation if you can
- Chinese:
- Cantonese: 請, 请 (cing2) (in formal writing), 唔該 (m4 goi1) (spoken language)
- Dungan: чин (qing)
- Mandarin: 請 (cmn), 请 (cmn) (qǐng) (always in front a verb), 拜托 (cmn) (bàituō)
- Coptic: ⲁⲣⲓϩ̀ⲙⲟⲧ (Arihmot)
- Cornish: mar pleg (kw)
- Czech: prosím (cs)
- Danish: vær så venlig (da)
- Dutch: (polite) alstublieft (nl), (casual) alsjeblieft (nl), a.u.b. (nl)
- Flemish: (polite, casual) alstublieft (vls)
- Esperanto: bonvolu (eo)
- Estonian: palun (et), (said by more than one person) palume (et)
- Fijian: yalo vinaka (fj)
- Finnish: olkaa hyvä (fi)
- French: s'il vous plaît (fr) (formal), s'il te plaît (fr) (informal), S.V.P. (fr), (with infinitive) prière de (fr)
- Georgian: თუ შეიძლება (ka) (tu šeidzleba), გთხოვთ (ka) (gt’xovt’)
- German: bitte (de)
- Greek: παρακαλώ (el) (parakaló)
- Hebrew: בבקשה (he) (b'vakashá)
- Hindi: कृपया (hi) (kŕpayā), मेहरबानी करके (hi) (meharbānī karke), प्लीज़ (hi) (plīz)
- Hungarian: kérem (hu), legyen szíves (hu), légy szíves (hu)
- Ido: voluntez (io)
- Indonesian: minta tolong (id)
- Irish: le do thoil (ga), más é do thoil é (ga)
- Italian: per favore (it), per piacere (it) (less formal)
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- Japanese: (after a verb (-te)) ...ください (ja) (...kudasái), どうぞ (ja) (dōzo), お願いします (ja) (o-negai shimasu)
- Korean: 제발 (ko) (jebal)
- Kurdish:
- Sorani: بێ زهحمهت (ku) (bae zaHmat)
- Latin: amābō te (la), quaeso (la), amabo (la), amabo (la), si me amas (la)
- Latvian: lūdzu (lv)
- Lithuanian: prašau (lt)
- Luxembourgish: wann ech glift (lb)
- Macedonian: молам (mk) (mólam)
- Malay: sila (ms)
- Mongolian: please add this translation if you can
- Navajo: tʼáá shǫǫdí
- Norwegian: vær så snill (no)
- Ossetian: please add this translation if you can
- Palauan: adang
- Persian: لطفاً (fa) (lotfan), خواهش میکنم (fa) (xâheš mi-konam)
- Polish: proszę (pl)
- Portuguese: por favor (pt), faça favor (pt)
- Romanian: (singular and plural formal, plural familiar) vă rog (ro), (singular familiar) te rog (ro)
- Russian: пожалуйста (ru) (požálujsta) (read: požálusta) (+ imperative), прошу (ru) (prošú) (+ infinitive), (formal) будьте добры (ru) (búd'te dobrý), (informal, to a man) будь добр (ru) (búd' dobr), (informal, to a woman) будь добра (ru) (búd' dobrá)
- Samoan: fa'amolemole (sm)
- Scottish Gaelic: (s., informal) le do thoil (gd), (pl., formal) le ur toil (gd), (s., informal) ma 's e do thoil e (gd), (pl., formal) ma 's e ur toil e (gd)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: молим (sh)
- Roman: molim (sh)
- Slovak: prosím (sk), nech sa páči (sk)
- Slovene: prosim (sl)
- Spanish: por favor (es), favor de (es), porfa (es)
- Swedish: tack (sv), snälla (sv), var så god (sv), vänligen (sv)
- Tamil: தயவு செய்து (ta) (dayavu seithu)
- Thai: ช่วย (th) (chûay), กรุณา (th) (gà-rú-naa)
- Tibetan: please add this translation if you can
- Turkish: lütfen (tr), (formal) zahmet olmazsa (tr)
- Tuvan: көр (kör)
- Ukrainian: прошу (uk) (prošú), будь ласка (uk) (budʹ láska)
- Urdu: مہربانی (ur) (meharbānī), مہربانی فرماکے (ur) (meharbānī farmake), پلیز (ur) (plīz)
- Vietnamese: làm ơn (vi), xin (vi)
- Welsh: os gwelwch yn dda (cy)
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expression of annoyance or impatience
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References [edit]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 “please” in Dictionary.com Unabridged, v1.0.1, Lexico Publishing Group, 2006.
- ^ “please” in Douglas Harper, Online Etymology Dictionary (2001).
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