Please

"Please" in German

bitte

(interjection to make a polite request)

bitte

(affirmative to an offer)

bitte

(expression of annoyance or impatience)

gerne

(affirmative to an offer)

belieben

(to desire; to will; to be pleased by)

gefallen

(to make happy or satisfy)

rechtmachen

(to make happy or satisfy)

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Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.