s'il vous plaît

[seel voo ple]

interjection

French.

1. if you please; please.

s'il vous plaît

/ sil vu plɛ /

1. if you please; please

Example Sentences

For the unaware, that classic acronym comes from the French phrase Répondez s'il vous plait.

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"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.

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“Deux de ceux, s’il vous plaît.”

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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.”

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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.”

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