N4 — outside your level filter
causative
please let me do it — asking for permission to be the one who acts
その仕事、ぜひ私にやらせてください。
sono shigoto, zehi watashi ni yarasete kudasai.
Please let me be the one to take that job on. neutral
ちょっと考えさせて。明日返事するから。
chotto kangaesasete. ashita henji suru kara.
Let me think about it — I'll give you an answer tomorrow. casual
Variants
させてもらえませんかsasetemoraemasenkacolloquial
a question instead of a request — leaves the refusal genuinely open, and is what you use with a colleague rather than a customer.
させていただけませんかsaseteitadakemasenkaformal
humble いただく on the same causative base — the business and email tier, and the softest of the three.
させてsasetecolloquial
ください dropped in casual speech, usually with a rising tone — ちょっと考えさせて.
This pattern, conjugated
- softened requestさせてくださいませんかsasetekudasaimasenka
させてください
させてくださいsasete kudasaiN4neutral