ください vs 下さい？

[highbridge]

In a lesson Naomi sensei thought us about "下さい"　and　"ください", but I totally forgot! Would anyone help me please?

[Psy]

下さい = ください = kudasai. Same word, different spellings. Most of the time it's written without the kanji, so I suppose it looks a little more formal when it is. It's a common expression which means "please give me" or "please do [something] for me."

[markystar]

technically speaking, 下さい is for actually giving something (an object) to someone else. whereas ください is generally used for the meaning of please. native speakers themselves get confused on this differentiation too, so you won't always see the rule adhered to. also you'll see 下さい in signs (like on the tokyo metro) where it's used to conserve space or speed up the reading process.

[highbridge]

Thanks for the answers! Does anyone remember the lesson which she was talking about "下さい　vs ください"? May I'm shouldn't mind so much

[Javizy]

I remember Naomi saying that auxiliary verbs should never be written in kanji, e.g. 来る, 行く, 置く should not be kanji'd up after the て-form. This rule seems to be followed in most of the things I've read. It seems to mainly be people who love pressing the space-bar that use kanji for these sort of words, as well as regular words that don't generally use kanji like なる.

Like Marky was saying, use を下さい and てください. If in doubt, just use hiragana in cases like this.

[WalterWills]

Wow I didn't know that about auxiliary verbs..

Although I'm sure I always see "-komu" written with Kanji..I could be mistaken though.

[Javizy]

Wow I didn't know that about auxiliary verbs..

Although I'm sure I always see "-komu" written with Kanji..I could be mistaken though.

Do you mean like 覗き込む (のぞきこむ)? Those are compound verbs rather than auxiliary ones, so what Naomi said doesn't apply to them.

[highbridge]

Thanks Marky and Javizy! It was exactly what she said! Now I remember!