"be my guest" meaning in English

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Verb

Audio: en-au-be my guest.ogg
Head templates: {{head|en|verb|imperative}} be my guest (imperative)
  1. (idiomatic) Do as you wish; go ahead; help yourself; go for it! Tags: idiomatic, imperative Translations (do as you wish): 請便 (Chinese Mandarin), 请便 (qǐngbiàn) (Chinese Mandarin), 請自便 (Chinese Mandarin), 请自便 (qǐng zì biàn) (Chinese Mandarin), 別客氣 (Chinese Mandarin), 别客气 (bié kèqì) (Chinese Mandarin), ga je gang (Dutch), ole hyvä [informal, singular] (Finnish), olkaa hyvä [formal, plural] (Finnish), ole hyvä vain (Finnish), olkaa hyvä vain (Finnish), kaikin mokomin (Finnish), servez-vous [formal] (French), je vous en prie (French), sers-toi [informal] (French), je t’en prie (French), vas-y (French), allez-y (French), როგორც გენებოს (rogorc genebos) (Georgian), bedienen Sie sich [formal] (German), greifen Sie zu (German), bedien dich [informal] (German), greif zu (German), csak nyugodtan (Hungarian), csak tessék (Hungarian), hogyne (Hungarian), persze (Hungarian), természetesen (Hungarian), fai pure (Italian), ご遠慮なくお使いください (go-enryo naku o-tsukai kudasai) (Japanese), proszę (Polish), droga wolna [feminine] (Polish), fique à vontade (Portuguese), sinta-se à vontade (Portuguese), не стесня́йтесь (ne stesnjájtesʹ) (english: don't be shy) [formal] (Russian), не стесня́йся (ne stesnjájsja) [informal] (Russian), угоща́йтесь (ugoščájtesʹ) (english: help yourself (food)) [formal] (Russian), угоща́йся (ugoščájsja) [informal] (Russian), orale como vas (Spanish), adelante, llegale con confinaza (Spanish), adelante (Spanish)
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          "code": "cmn",
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          "sense": "do as you wish",
          "word": "請便"
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          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "roman": "qǐngbiàn",
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          "sense": "do as you wish",
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          "word": "別客氣"
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          "roman": "bié kèqì",
          "sense": "do as you wish",
          "word": "别客气"
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          "sense": "do as you wish",
          "word": "ga je gang"
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          "sense": "do as you wish",
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          "code": "fi",
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          "sense": "do as you wish",
          "word": "olkaa hyvä vain"
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        {
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "do as you wish",
          "word": "kaikin mokomin"
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          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "do as you wish",
          "tags": [
            "formal"
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          "word": "servez-vous"
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        {
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "do as you wish",
          "word": "je vous en prie"
        },
        {
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "do as you wish",
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            "informal"
          ],
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        },
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          "code": "fr",
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          "sense": "do as you wish",
          "word": "je t’en prie"
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          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "do as you wish",
          "word": "vas-y"
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          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "do as you wish",
          "word": "allez-y"
        },
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          "code": "ka",
          "lang": "Georgian",
          "roman": "rogorc genebos",
          "sense": "do as you wish",
          "word": "როგორც გენებოს"
        },
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          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "do as you wish",
          "tags": [
            "formal"
          ],
          "word": "bedienen Sie sich"
        },
        {
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "do as you wish",
          "word": "greifen Sie zu"
        },
        {
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "do as you wish",
          "tags": [
            "informal"
          ],
          "word": "bedien dich"
        },
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          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "do as you wish",
          "word": "greif zu"
        },
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          "code": "hu",
          "lang": "Hungarian",
          "sense": "do as you wish",
          "word": "csak nyugodtan"
        },
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          "code": "hu",
          "lang": "Hungarian",
          "sense": "do as you wish",
          "word": "csak tessék"
        },
        {
          "code": "hu",
          "lang": "Hungarian",
          "sense": "do as you wish",
          "word": "hogyne"
        },
        {
          "code": "hu",
          "lang": "Hungarian",
          "sense": "do as you wish",
          "word": "persze"
        },
        {
          "code": "hu",
          "lang": "Hungarian",
          "sense": "do as you wish",
          "word": "természetesen"
        },
        {
          "code": "it",
          "lang": "Italian",
          "sense": "do as you wish",
          "word": "fai pure"
        },
        {
          "code": "ja",
          "lang": "Japanese",
          "roman": "go-enryo naku o-tsukai kudasai",
          "sense": "do as you wish",
          "word": "ご遠慮なくお使いください"
        },
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          "code": "pl",
          "lang": "Polish",
          "sense": "do as you wish",
          "word": "proszę"
        },
        {
          "code": "pl",
          "lang": "Polish",
          "sense": "do as you wish",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "droga wolna"
        },
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          "code": "pt",
          "lang": "Portuguese",
          "sense": "do as you wish",
          "word": "fique à vontade"
        },
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          "code": "pt",
          "lang": "Portuguese",
          "sense": "do as you wish",
          "word": "sinta-se à vontade"
        },
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          "code": "ru",
          "english": "don't be shy",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "ne stesnjájtesʹ",
          "sense": "do as you wish",
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            "formal"
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          "word": "не стесня́йтесь"
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          "word": "не стесня́йся"
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          "code": "ru",
          "english": "help yourself (food)",
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          "sense": "do as you wish",
          "tags": [
            "formal"
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          "word": "угоща́йтесь"
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          "word": "угоща́йся"
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          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "do as you wish",
          "word": "orale como vas"
        },
        {
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "do as you wish",
          "word": "adelante, llegale con confinaza"
        },
        {
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "do as you wish",
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      "sense": "do as you wish",
      "word": "請便"
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      "lang": "Finnish",
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      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "do as you wish",
      "word": "kaikin mokomin"
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      "word": "je vous en prie"
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      "sense": "do as you wish",
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      "word": "bedienen Sie sich"
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      "code": "de",
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      "sense": "do as you wish",
      "word": "greifen Sie zu"
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      "sense": "do as you wish",
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      "sense": "do as you wish",
      "word": "greif zu"
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      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "do as you wish",
      "word": "csak nyugodtan"
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      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "do as you wish",
      "word": "csak tessék"
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      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "do as you wish",
      "word": "hogyne"
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      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "do as you wish",
      "word": "persze"
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      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "do as you wish",
      "word": "természetesen"
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      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "do as you wish",
      "word": "fai pure"
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      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "go-enryo naku o-tsukai kudasai",
      "sense": "do as you wish",
      "word": "ご遠慮なくお使いください"
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      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "do as you wish",
      "word": "proszę"
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      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "do as you wish",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "droga wolna"
    },
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      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "do as you wish",
      "word": "fique à vontade"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "do as you wish",
      "word": "sinta-se à vontade"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "english": "don't be shy",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "ne stesnjájtesʹ",
      "sense": "do as you wish",
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        "formal"
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      "word": "не стесня́йтесь"
    },
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      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "ne stesnjájsja",
      "sense": "do as you wish",
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      "word": "не стесня́йся"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "english": "help yourself (food)",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "ugoščájtesʹ",
      "sense": "do as you wish",
      "tags": [
        "formal"
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      "word": "угоща́йтесь"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "ugoščájsja",
      "sense": "do as you wish",
      "tags": [
        "informal"
      ],
      "word": "угоща́йся"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "do as you wish",
      "word": "orale como vas"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "do as you wish",
      "word": "adelante, llegale con confinaza"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "do as you wish",
      "word": "adelante"
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  "word": "be my guest"
}

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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-12-15 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-12-04 using wiktextract (8a39820 and 4401a4c). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.