Collocations for "please"
Common phrases and expressions where native English speakers use the word "please" in context.
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please
ⓘMost examples are given in US English. We have labeled exceptions as UK.adv
- please [do not, don't]
- please note that
- please [contact, call me back] (immediately)
- please [select, choose] (one of the following)
- please call [ahead of time, before coming, to make an appointment]
- please be [patient, advised, aware, careful]
- please [help yourself, make yourself at home]
- please log in to
- please make sure that
- please provide your [name, address]
- please [come, leave, arrive, be ready] by [5:00]
- please [can, may] I
- can you [help, assist] me, please?
- if you have [questions, concerns], please contact
- could you please [come here, do me a favor]?
- would you please stop [shouting, asking]!
- a cup of [tea, coffee], please
- please do!
- please [your parents, your lover, the crowd]
- please her [in bed, sexually]
- please her with [flowers, a ring, a fancy dinner]
- please them with (her) good [grades, behavior]
- pleases your [parents] (that)
- pleases me to [see, hear, know]
- pleased him greatly
- (tried to) please [her, everybody, all the guests]
- you can't please [everyone, all of the people, them all]
- [difficult, easy, hard] to please
- [eager, ready, here] to please
- am pleased [with, by] your good [grades]
'please' also found in these entries (note: many are not synonyms or translations):
ASAP
- Arabic
- Greek
- ID
- Japanese
- above
- account
- accounting
- additional
- address
- addressed
- administration
- administrator
- adult
- advise
- aforementioned
- after
- again
- age
- aircraft
- airplane
- aisle
- alert
- along
- alternatively
- another
- anxious
- anywhere
- apology
- appendix
- articulate
- artwork
- as
- ashtray
- aside
- associate
- attach
- attached
- attention
- attentive
- author
- authority
- availability
- available
- away
- back
- backward
- basis
- beg
- behave