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In this scene a young girl, Yotsuba, drops in on her neighbors for some
breakfast. The mother who's cooking breakfast says:

> 「今お父さんの焼いてるからその次ねー。ちょっと待っててー。」

So I guess she's preparing her husbands food first, and tells Yotsuba to hang
on for a minute.

But why didn't she just say ちょっと待って?

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translation て-form
What does the final て in 待ってて signify?
I think it's short for 待っていて. Though I'm just taking a guess in the dark here.
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Like Mark says, it's short for 待っていて, which is the て-form of 待っている. I think
it's a little softer than saying ちょっと待って, and since Yotsuba is not one of the
family, the mother is being a little more polite. Saying ちょっと待って can sound a
little short. The meaning changes with the extra て, but I can't describe how
it changes well. Something like "please be there waiting".
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Other than soft / politeness on using 待って(い)て、 I think it has some sense that
you don't have to stop what you are doing now to wait, and you may do
something else while waiting.
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could it possibly mean "you only have to wait a little while." because of the
ite being there.. chotto modifies matte which equals wait a little (while) and
ite means to be/exist/stay so therefore, 'a little bit wait is' could be a
rougher interpretation.
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