Visitors may be surprised to discover that "please" doesn't work quite the same way across the Nordic countries – revealing a very different way of thinking about politeness.
This has lost its use in french, as it was mostly used by servants toward lords, and politics turned it into something not that great first, and nowadays it feels too old (may be a bit as “thou” in english, it is not false, nor bad, just not used).
But should you translate word fore word, to please is “plaire” in french. And the common use is “s’il vous paît” (if it pleases you). For grammar, french use a conditionnal rather than the english imperative order “please!”.
Plaît-il ?
This has lost its use in french, as it was mostly used by servants toward lords, and politics turned it into something not that great first, and nowadays it feels too old (may be a bit as “thou” in english, it is not false, nor bad, just not used).
But should you translate word fore word, to please is “plaire” in french. And the common use is “s’il vous paît” (if it pleases you). For grammar, french use a conditionnal rather than the english imperative order “please!”.