Do it for me!

No, I'm not asking you you translate something for me. I just didn't know what else to name the thread.

Anyways, I have a simple question:

As I've learned, when you're asking someone to do something for you, you would use ～てください, and you wouldn't use ～てくれてください, being that it's repetative.

So, to ask a friend or whoever to do something, you just use the -te form.

For example:

市場へ行ってください。 - Please go to the market.
市場へ行ってね。 - (Please) go to the market.

Now, my question is, when saying "please blahblahblah for me" the informal way, would you use ～てくれて, or just the -te form?

For example:

1. お店に行ってりんごを買って。 - Go to the store and buy me an apple.
or
2. お店に行ってりんごを買ってくれて。 - Go to the store and buy me an apple.

And also, if the first sentence is correct, to know that it's "for me", should I add 僕に before りんご? Or is it okay to leave it out if it's known in the context?

よろしくお願いします☆

Haha, Tomii, I thought you've made a thread for self-indulgence!


～くれる is a statement for receiving favour from the recipient point of view, so there is no imperative for it.
If "for me" means to ask someone to do something instead of doing it yourself, then the literal translation is 私の代わりに.

And it is possible to imply it without using "for me".
For example:

Go to the store and buy an apple for me.
（私の代わりに）お店に行ってりんごを買って来てくだ さい。
Do the homework for me.
（私の代わりに）宿題をやっておいてください。

Of course, context is very important and the above do not always imply "for me".

undrentide said:

Haha, Tomii, I thought you've made a thread for self-indulgence!


～くれる is a statement for receiving favour from the recipient point of view, so there is no imperative for it.

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I thought くれ、くれなさい were the imparatives for requests in the affirmative ?

もし誰かに偉そうに命令したいなら。。。

Elizabeth said:

I thought くれ、くれなさい were the imparatives for requests in the affirmative ?

もし誰かに偉そうに命令したいなら。。。

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Emm, くれ is a very informal form of ください。
くれなさい has quite different connotation but rather unnatural.
くれてやれ is "to give/do (to a third party)"
Yet, both of them do not have connotation "for me"...

undrentide said:

Emm, くれ is a very informal form of ください。
くれなさい has quite different connotation but rather unnatural.
くれてやれ is "to give/do (to a third party)"
Yet, both of them do not have connotation "for me"...

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Likely he meant as a favor to me, not in place of me. It would be the most natural reading of that English, anyway.

And I thought I remembered learning in a verb book that くれ was from くれる、 which means ください、くださいませ the imp. forms of くださる。etc. But this is an American text. Plus, I'm not a guy either, so making it くれ never sinks in completely !

Thanks so much for helping me
From what both of you said, I think I understand a little more now.

Oh, I just remembered. Shouldn't I just say this?:

お店へ行ってりんごを買っていただけませんか。
お店へ行ってりんごを買ってくれませんか。
お店へ行ってりんごを買ってくれない？

Sorry if this is what I was looking for haha. I just remembered learning to ask for a favour and I wa slike "hmmm...." and I looke dit up in my book.