The meaning of please is to afford or give pleasure or satisfaction To give enjoyment, pleasure, or satisfaction to How to use please in a sentence.
We use expressions with thank you and thanks to respond to something politely and to show we are grateful for something If it please you is a present subjunctive form, but most current uses of please are not parsed that way. Thanks is more informal than thank you
To give satisfaction or pleasure Waiters who try hard to please To have the will or desire Sit down, if you please.
Please is a shortening of the phrase, if you please, an intransitive, ergative form taken from if it please you, which is in turn a calque of the french s'il vous plaît, which replaced pray. (used as a polite addition to requests, commands, etc.) if you would be so obliging See examples of please used in a sentence. You say please when you are politely asking or inviting someone to do something.
Used to show that a request is serious or important Short for if you please, an intransitive, ergative form taken from if it please you[1][2] which is a calque of french s'il vous plaît, which replaced pray
