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Please pass the butter when you’re finished.

A2

Sentence

Narrator

Please pass the butter when you’re finished.

Study notes

How to use in different contexts

Making a Request

Could you please pass the butter when you're finished with it?

Giving Instructions

Once you've finished your meal, please pass the butter to me.

Polite Request

When you're done, would you mind passing the butter, please?

Formal Setting

Please pass the butter to me when you have concluded your meal.

Rephrased versions

More Casual

Pass the butter when you're done.

More Formal

I would appreciate it if you could pass the butter once you have finished.

Simpler English

Give me the butter when you're finished.

Phrases to learn

pass the butter

To hand the butter to someone.

when you're finished

After you have completed something.