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I want to ask them to put some rice in the bowl from the rice cooker. How do native speakers say it in this context? “Can you get some rice in the bowl”?

Same-Technician9125
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ThirteenOnline
Can you put some rice in the bowl for me, please. Thank you.
BigtimeCloud
"Would you please give me some rice?" Or "Can you put some rice in the/my bowl, please?" Or "Would you please give me some of the rice from the rice cooker?"
Hippopotamus_Critic
Informal, American: "Can I get some more rice?" More formal/UK/Canada: "May I have some more rice, please?"
old-town-guy
>I want to ask them to put some rice in the bowl So say exactly that.
zebostoneleigh
Is the bowl important? Or do you just want rice? Could I have some rice, please? Please put some rice in this bowl? I would like some rice. I would like some rice in this bowl? Could I have some rice from the rice cooker? I want rice from the rice cooker in this bowl. I would like some of that rice, please. ——- Lots of variations, depending on what you’re trying to emphasize: - the rice cooker - the bowl - the rice - your desire
Elean0rZ
I'd say something like e.g. *(Could you) (please) put some rice in the bowl (please)(?)* *(Could you) (please) scoop some rice into the bowl (please)(?)* *(Could you) (please) give me some rice (please)(?)* Weirdly, "would", which probably makes more grammatical sense in place of "could" here, feels slightly less natural to me...but either works.