I have the following sentence to translate.

```

    だれが来てもいいですが
    少なくても
    一人は
    必ず
    来させて下さい
    
```

So far I have the following.

```

    Anyone can come but
    even if there is few/little
    1 person
    definitely
    please let me come/please make them come.
    
```

I just don't get what the translation is suppose to be saying. Can any think
of a good translation?
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translation usage
Usage of て Form Plus も (Translation)
Let me just improve on your attempt.

> だれが来てもいいですが  
>  **少なくても**  
>  一人は  
>  必ず  
>  来させて下さい
>
> Anyone can come, but  
>  **at least**  
>  1 person  
>  definitely  
>  please make so. come

This illustrates the drawback of translating from an SOV language to an SVO
language word by word as well as the difficulty of translating a word out of
context (少なくても).

Strung together as is, this would give something like

> Anyone can come, but, please, definitely make at least one person come.

A bit better would be

> Whoever comes is fine, but please make sure that at least one person comes.

I don't know where you got this sentence, but "at least" is also written 少なく
**と** も (see [大辞泉 and
大辞林](http://kotobank.jp/word/%E5%B0%91%E3%81%AA%E3%81%8F%E3%81%A8%E3%82%82?dic=daijirin&oid=DJR_sukunakutomo_-010)).
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> **だれ** が来てもいいですが

First it is not written 誰か、but 誰 which is someone so:

```

    Someone may come but,
    
```

The rest could follow with:

```

    even if few
    one person
    definitively
    have it come
    
```

translated this way with each peice is rather unmeaningful so in one go, I
would correct your translation to:

```

    Someone may come, but even if few, have at least one person come please.
    Or
    Someone may come, but even if few, make sure that at least one person come please.
    
```

Or with similar wording. Hope it answered your question.
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