s'il vous plaît
Americaninterjection
Example Sentences
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For the unaware, that classic acronym comes from the French phrase Répondez s'il vous plait.
From Salon
"If someone thinks that is racism, then 'S'il vous plaît', they can call us racist, but this is not how I understand racism," he said.
From Reuters
“Deux de ceux, s’il vous plaît.”
From Seattle Times
He retweeted the photo with a quip in French: “I’ll have salad with tomato, onion and samurai sauce, and a small fries, s’il vous plait.”
From New York Times
For years, I studied conjugations and the passé simple, practiced pronouncing yaourt and grenouille, but try as I might I just couldn’t seem to master it beyond the essentials like “deux pains au chocolat, s’il vous plaît.”
From New York Times
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