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Please in Russian
Please in Russian is пожалуйста (pozhaluysta). The same word also answers спасибо as you're welcome, and accompanies handing something over, like here you go. One word, three jobs, told apart by context.
Aurélien CuvelierAug 9, 2026 · Updated Aug 10, 2026The ways to say it
пожалуйста (pozhaluysta), please / you're welcome
будьте добры (budte dobry), formal request: be so kind; polite openers to strangers
не за что (ne za chto), reply to thanks: it was nothing
How to use it
In speech пожалуйста compresses to something like pozhalusta or even pzhalsta; the full five syllables live mostly in careful speech and textbooks.
Russian politeness leans on grammar as much as vocabulary: requests soften by going negative and conditional. Вы не могли бы... (could you not perhaps...) is the native way to ask a stranger for a favour; adding пожалуйста on top is optional polish.
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