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〜てください please do: Meaning & Examples
te kudasai · JLPT N5
〜てください means “please do”. It is a JLPT N5 pattern, shown below in the sentences where real Japanese writers use it, with furigana on every word.
〜てください (please do) in real sentences
Each one is quoted from a published Japanese text in this library and links to the story it came from. Some use older spellings, or break off where the sentence carried on. They are transcribed exactly as their authors wrote them.
A polite request or instruction: the te-form of a verb plus ください. Here it is stacked on ～ている, so 待っていてください asks Yuki to stay in the state of waiting, not just to wait once.
おじいさん、はやく帰ってきてください。
— from Never a Day Off (N5)
これ、つかってください。
— from A Rainy Day (Beginner)
勉強をしてください。
— from Ten Minutes Left (N5)
また来てください。
— from Three Envelopes (N5)
Appears in 9 of 379 texts in our library.
蔵書The texts
9 texts in the library use 〜てください
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あめの ひ
A Rainy Day
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二まいの紙
The Invitation
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あと十ぷん
Ten Minutes Left
Yomimaru
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おれの屋台
Never a Day Off
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三つのふうとう
Three Envelopes
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店のまど
Wait Here
Yomimaru
40
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三匹 の こぐまさん
Three Little Bear Cubs
村山 籌子
90
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ガチヨウノ タンジヨウビ
Goose's Birthday
新美 南吉
75
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カンザシ
The Kanzashi
新美 南吉
解説Background
Where this 〜てください explanation comes from
〜てください sits at JLPT N5 in the 302-point taxonomy every text in this library is tagged against. Each text is read for the patterns it contains, which is what lets this page list every text that uses 〜てください and pull its example sentences out of them.
The example sentences were not written to demonstrate the rule. They are quoted from published Japanese texts in this library (Never a Day Off and A Rainy Day among them), and each one links back to the story it came from, so you can read the sentence where it actually happened.
質問Questions
〜てください: questions & answers
What does 〜てください mean?
〜てください means “please do”. It is a JLPT N5 pattern, and the example sentences on this page show it doing that job in published Japanese rather than in a constructed example.
What JLPT level is 〜てください?
〜てください is normally introduced around JLPT N5. The texts listed on this page span several levels, because a pattern taught at N5 keeps turning up in writing well above and below it.
How do I get 〜てください to stick?
Read it rather than review it. Meeting 〜てください in 9 different stories attaches it to 9 contexts you remember, where reviewing the rule 9 times attaches it to nothing. Every text listed here is free to read in full.
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