please

This one's purely idiomatic. In Spanish and Italian you ask for a favor:

Italian per favore (pair fah-vo-ray) = "as a favor..." or "please."

Spanish por favor (por fah-vor) = "as a favor" or "please."

In French, things are more roundabout:

French S'il vous plaît (see voo play) = "If it pleases you" = "please." Don't even try to decipher it at this stage.

The words for "please" take some getting used to. But in a foreign country, you get used to them quickly because you have to ask for things a lot.