What is the difference between ～ていてください and ～ていってください?


a. **ゆっくりしていてください**

b. **ゆっくりしていってください**

What's the difference between these two sentences? How to translate them?




> a.ゆっくりして **いて** ください

I believe this is standard
[-ている](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/questions/43190/the-use-
of-%E3%81%A6%E3%81%84%E3%82%8B) (sometimes called progressive tense), i.e.

> "Please be relaxed/take it easy" [and stay that way].

* * *

> b.ゆっくりして **いって** ください

`ていって` has several possible interpretations:

  1. conjugation of -ていく (changing state)

> "Please relax/become relaxed"(?)

Although i think -ていく is mostly used in descriptions (e.g. `空が明るくなっていく`) and
not much in requests so this one is unlikely IMO.

  2. (most likely) conjugation of ‐て行く (do an action and leave/opposite of -て来る): 

> "Please take it easy [before you have to go]"

  3. conjugation of ‐て言う, but it doesn't really work in this example IMO.

  4. a few more options like 入って,云って,要って but these are even less plausible

For more info:

  * [Difference between -ていく and -てくる](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/questions/676/difference-between-%e3%81%a6%e3%81%84%e3%81%8f-and-%e3%81%a6%e3%81%8f%e3%82%8b)

  * [The use of "ている"](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/questions/43190/the-use-of-%e3%81%a6%e3%81%84%e3%82%8b)

  * [What is a subsidiary verb?](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/questions/18952/what-is-a-subsidiary-verb)




> a.ゆっくりして **いて** ください

I believe this is standard
[-ている](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/questions/43190/the-use-
of-%E3%81%A6%E3%81%84%E3%82%8B) (sometimes called progressive tense), i.e.

> "Please be relaxed/take it easy" [and stay that way].

* * *

> b.ゆっくりして **いって** ください

`ていって` has several possible interpretations:

  1. conjugation of -ていく (changing state)

> "Please relax/become relaxed"(?)

Although i think -ていく is mostly used in descriptions (e.g. `空が明るくなっていく`) and
not much in requests so this one is unlikely IMO.

  2. (most likely) conjugation of ‐て行く (do an action and leave/opposite of -て来る): 

> "Please take it easy [before you have to go]"

  3. conjugation of ‐て言う, but it doesn't really work in this example IMO.

  4. a few more options like 入って,云って,要って but these are even less plausible

For more info:

  * [Difference between -ていく and -てくる](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/questions/676/difference-between-%e3%81%a6%e3%81%84%e3%81%8f-and-%e3%81%a6%e3%81%8f%e3%82%8b)

  * [The use of "ている"](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/questions/43190/the-use-of-%e3%81%a6%e3%81%84%e3%82%8b)

  * [What is a subsidiary verb?](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/questions/18952/what-is-a-subsidiary-verb)

