Talk:let's

The question is not why is "let's go" different, but how is "let's go" different. I thought I included both the literal sense and the "hurry up" sense. Most languages seem to use this. Certainly for Spanish and Hebrew (yalla) speakers. In Vietnam when I asked for the translation of "let's go" I was told "Di mao". I still don't know if that's the literal translation, the "hurry up" translation, or both - but it made the motorcycle driver go twice as fast when I tried it. — Hippietrail 22:03, 17 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Plural

I'm not sure let's is always plural. I use let's when talking to myself.--Simplificationalizer (talk) 23:17, 26 March 2017 (UTC)

I'll tell you what let's do: let's go down...

What meaning is used in I'll tell you what let's do --Backinstadiums (talk) 23:55, 25 February 2020 (UTC)

let's to the woods

What does it mean in let's to the woods --Backinstadiums (talk) 20:41, 12 February 2021 (UTC)

In a very informal style, let's is often used to mean 'let me'

In a very informal style, let's is often used to mean let me --Backinstadiums (talk) 15:47, 29 April 2021 (UTC)

Equivalent of the second-person plural imperative in some other languages, chiefly instructional

The definition seems contradictory with its example, Let’s make sure we don't forget proper punctuation --Backinstadiums (talk) 17:41, 11 August 2021 (UTC)

Maybe used in the sense 4 or 5, "patronizing we"? 4a617374726562 (talk) 18:32, 7 March 2022 (UTC)

Objection to "let us go"

One of the usage notes cites let us go as an example of an exclusive sense of the uncontracted let us form of "let's" (that is, the speaker isn't including the listener in who should go), but I assert that let us go is better viewed as the phrasal verb let go used with us as the object. In this regard, I don't think that let us go is a valid usage example of the let us form of "let's". —Modus Ponens (talk) 07:14, 14 May 2022 (UTC)

Absolutely. The whole explanation ("Let's always includes the addressee(s) and usually (but not always) the speaker, while let us commonly refers to the speaker and others but not the addressee(s), especially in a modern context.") confuses the cohortative or hortative usage of let (e.g. "Let us go now, you and I" and "He saved others, let him save himself", resp.) with using let in the literate meaning, or in the case of the example even let go. I removed it wholesale, because there's nothing more to say about let's, and an explanation about let us belongs at let us, which already covers the two possibilities in its separate definitions. M!dgard (talk) 20:55, 12 January 2023 (UTC)