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をください details

Examples

please give me — requesting an object

かあさん、お小遣こづかいちょうだい!

okaasan, okozukai choudai!

Mom, give me some pocket money! casual

すみません、おみずをください。

sumimasen, o mizu o kudasai.

Excuse me, some water please. neutral

この切手きって五枚ごまいください。

kono kitte o gomai kudasai.

Five of these stamps, please. neutral

Formation

Notes

In shops and restaurants を routinely drops (ビールください), and that clipped order is fully polite; adding it back sounds slightly more careful, not more courteous.

Related patterns

Similar

  • One ください, two complements — Nをください asks to be handed a thing, てください asks for an action; only the noun frame drops its particle in quick orders (コーヒーください), the て never drops.

Lookalikes

  • Identical in romaji ("o kudasai") and near-identical in speech once を drops — but 電話(を)ください requests the thing/act plainly, while お電話ください is the honorific request frame お+stem+ください.

Same meaning

please do; could you

PatternAttaches to
ないでください
お〜ください
ていただけませんか
てください
てくれませんか