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It's okay not to ~; You don't have to ~; You may skip ~

to try doing something; to give something a try; to test something by doing it

I'm sorry for ~; Sorry for doing ~; Please excuse me for ~

to do something for someone; to do a favor for someone; to help someone by doing something for them

to do something for someone (benefiting the speaker); someone does something for you; an act of kindness or service from someone else

to have someone do something for me; to get someone to do something for me; to receive a favor by someone’s action

command to do; imperative instruction; tell someone to do something (soft imperative)

to connect actions or states with a sense of 'and', 'but', or parallelism; list two or more actions/states without showing strict sequence; contrast or simultaneous actions in a single clause

Please do not (for me); Casual request

Thank you for doing ~ for me; Thanks for helping me with ~; I’m grateful you did ~ for me

Won't you?; Will you?; Could you?; Can you?; Would you?

I wonder...; I wonder if...; Could it be that...?; I wonder whether...?

to do (honorific); to perform an action with honorific form; to become the one who does the action (honorific)

to do (honorific)

Please do ~ (polite); Would you please ~ (honorific)

to be (honorific); to come (honorific); to go (honorific)

There is/are (polite); to exist (polite)

To be; extremely polite copula used in formal settings

humble form for actions I will do for others; I am obliged to do (a task for you); I humbly perform an action on behalf of someone else

To do (humble); To venerably do

Would you please ~; Could you do ~ for me?; Would you be so kind as to ~?