please let me do

Causative te-form plus ください politely asks for permission to do something yourself. It frames your own action as something the listener allows. It is very common in workplaces and formal requests.

Examples

• 今日きょうは早はやく帰かえらせてください。

  Kyou wa hayaku kaerasete kudasai.

  Please let me go home early today.

• その仕事しごとは私わたしにやらせてください。

  Sono shigoto wa watashi ni yarasete kudasai.

  Please let me do that job.

Vocabulary in these examples

• 今日 today
• 早い early
• 帰る to go home; to return
• くださる to give (honorific)
• その that (+ noun)
• 仕事 work; job

Related patterns · Causative

• 使役形（〜させる / 〜せる） to make or let someone do
• 使役受身（〜させられる） to be made to do (against one's will)