I beg you

Imploring someone earnestly

I beg you is a plea for someone to do something, expressing urgent or desperate appeal.

The phrase elevates a request beyond ordinary asking—it signals that the outcome matters deeply to the speaker: I beg you, don't tell anyone.

Though literally about begging, it often functions as emphatic persuasion rather than literal supplication: I beg you to reconsider.

Related

desperate · knees · on my knees · pray · beseech · entreat · with all my heart · grovel · tears · hands · clasped · forgive · spare · crying · supplication · humble · pitiful · appeal

Categories
Opposites
intensity of request

I beg youtake it or leave it

Non-negotiable final offer

whatever · suit yourself · no pressure · just wondering · by the way

power dynamic

I beg youmake it happen

Cause something to occur

see to it · do it now

emotional register

I beg youmatter-of-fact

Unemotional and practical

businesslike

Family

beg, begs, begged, begging, beggar, beggars, beggary, you, your

Familiarity
Top 100,000
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Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Abstract · Negative · Everyday, not technical · Rated G