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Grammar detail: くださる、くださいます、くださいません

くださる、くださいます、くださいません
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くださる is most commonly encountered in the form ください, please. However, it may actually be encountered in several of its other forms - as the plain form verb くださる itself, or the forms くださいます and くださいませんか, both of which function as politer forms of ください.
もしその
かね
してくださる
ならたいへんありがたく
ぞん
じます

If you will lend me the money, I shall be much obliged to you.
にほんご
日本語
しんぶん
新聞
ってきてくださいます

Could I get a Japanese newspaper, please?
この
てがみ
手紙
わたし
わり
いてくださいません

Would you be kind enough to write?
くださる is already extremely polite, but it may be further heightened using the humble form お + (verb stem form) + くださる, instead of the more typical て form used above:
このたび
のがしくださったら
のぞ
んでおります

I hope it will be overlooked this time.
The humble form can be used with plain ください or 下さい (this is known as the humble ください form). This adds a tone of respect, but without the same level of 'extreme politeness', so it might be found in requests written in official documents, for example:
かいしょ
楷書
くだ
さい

Please write using block letters.
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Kanji used in this grammar

カ   ゲ   した below, under   しも bottom part   もと under (influence)   さげる to lower, to reduce   さがる to be lowered   くだ to descend   くだ to judge   くださる to give   おろす to drop off (passenger)   おりる to get off (train)   
キン   コン   かね gold; money   
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タイ   か to lend   
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ソン   ゾン    suppose   
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ニチ   ジツ   sun; day   ひ    -か    
ホン   book   もと origin   
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ゴ   かた to talk, relate   かたらう to talk together, chat   
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シン   あたらしい    あら    にい- new   
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ブン   モン   き to listen, to hear   きこえる to be heard   
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ジ   も to hold, to have   
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シュ   hand   て    た-    
シ   かみ paper   
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シ   わたくし    わたし I, myself   
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タイ   ダイ   かえる to replace, to exchange   かわる to be exchanged   よ the world   しろ substitute   
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ショ   か to write   
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ケン   み to see   みえる to be seen; to appear   みせる to show   
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ボウ   モウ   のぞ to wish for   
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カイ    model, pattern; the square character style most commonly used in print   
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