How to translate following?
Please ask him for delay
I tried with
Bitte bitte ihn um den Aufschub
Doubling bitte appears to be awkward. Is there a better alternative?
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Please ask him for delay
I tried with
Bitte bitte ihn um den Aufschub
Doubling bitte appears to be awkward. Is there a better alternative?
But the doubling does not appear as bad to me.
Instead to try a verbatim translation you could paraphrase the message, e. g. like so:
- Bitte frag ihn, ob er noch warten kann.
- Bitte frag ihn, ob er mir noch etwas Zeit geben kann.