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I am trying to translate some text, but I hit a sentence that I could not
understand completely.

> 悪いんだがここ **片付けといてくれ**

From what I read up to now, this means something like "This place is in bad
shape. Clean it." roughly speaking, but I am having trouble understanding the
片付けといてくれ part.
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simplifies it to 片付けて, but there seems to be so much lost in this
simplification. What exactly does this extra part mean?
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What does 「片付けといてくれ」 mean?
I would like to wrap up.

〜しておく = (be sure) to do 〜

悪いんだが (<- 悪い + の + だ + が)= sorry to trouble you but

片付けといてくれ = 片付け + て + おい (<- おく) + て + くれ

where くれ is a casual (and somewhat curt) form of ください (= please).

Thus, together

悪いんだがここ片付けといてくれ = would you mind cleaning up this place (while I am out)?

But the original phrase sounds much less polite. So I would suggest "Mind
cleaning up this place, will ya? (Coz I wanna go out.)"
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