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"Slow down, please."
Translation:请慢一点儿。
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To me (native speaker) it doesn't sound like a complete sentence. It would be like saying "please slow", and slow is not a verb in chinese. The “一点儿” here makes the translation closer to "slower please".
What would it sound like to you without the 儿? It would still be grammatically correct, wouldn't it?
Having lived and studied in Taiwan (where traditional Chinese is the primary language) for 9 years, omitting it would sound perfectly normal to a Taiwanese resident. Saying ㄦ at the end of a sentence sounds more like a mainland China accent, but it would still be grammatically correct either way.
（請慢一點）-Traditional Chinese. 11.12.2019
一点点 is correct also. I lived in areas in China where it was used. I think 一点儿 is just a beijing thing.
Does "please" always have to come first? Why won't the two first characters ('please'+'slow') suffice? What do the last three characters mean? Does the hint for "down" point to a character referring to the direction 'down' (the character was not available for choosing)?
as Swansae said, slow is not a verb in chinese, and so the sentence doesn't work gramatically when it's just "please slow". 一点 means "a bit" or "a little" so the sentence roughly translates as "slower, please". 二 is a personal preference and certain dialects use it more than others. Yes, 下 translates to down but can be used differently in different contexts.
Yes, "please" always has to come first. It would sound incomplete without the last part. The last few words literally translate to "a bit". And I don't understand the last part
"慢一下" is okay but "慢下" would sound weird. The former means "slow down for a bit" while the latter means "slow go down" which doesn't make any sense. "下" means to go down.
