For this reason you shouldn't just swap "please" directly with snälla in order to be polite – a common mistake made by beginner Swedish learners coming from English – as it will make you sound like you're pleading for something. On the other hand, you could use snälla at the end of the sentence as an alternative to "please" without it having these whingy or begging connotations, such as in the phrases är du snäll or kan du vara snäll, literally meaning "are you nice" or "can you be nice".