What is the polite imperative form of くださる?
I came across the sentence 月曜日に出してくださいと言われましたが、月曜日じゃなくてもかまいませんか。 and was wondering if it was an indirect quote or not. My book says that indirect quotations use the plain form which can also indicate direct quotations if the reported speech used directly the plain form. ください should be the plain imperative form of くださる so that sentence can either be a direct or indirect quotation. Is that right? What's the polite equivalent of ください? Thank you!

EDIT: I was told ください is already polite. To make it plain I can say 月曜日に出してと言われました meaning →I was told to submit it on Monday/ I was told:" submit it on Monday" (depending on the context).

月曜日に出してくださいと言われました would be translated into→ I was told:" submit it on Monday, please".
What do you think?

Question

What is the polite imperative form of くださる?
I came across the sentence 月曜日に出してくださいと言われましたが、月曜日じゃなくてもかまいませんか。 and was wondering if it was an indirect quote or not. My book says that indirect quotations use the plain form which can also indicate direct quotations if the reported speech used directly the plain form. ください should be the plain imperative form of くださる so that sentence can either be a direct or indirect quotation. Is that right? What's the polite equivalent of ください? Thank you!

EDIT: I was told ください is already polite. To make it plain I can say 月曜日に出してと言われました meaning →I was told to submit it on Monday/ I was told:" submit it on Monday" (depending on the context).

月曜日に出してくださいと言われました would be translated into→ I was told:" submit it on Monday, please".
What do you think?

Answer

1.出して	Casual
2.出してください Formal/Polite
3.お出しください Formal/Polite/Humble

1 & 2 can be used by teachers to students, because it's just simply polite form.
But 3 is too polite and humble for such situation, and mostly used in business.

Your translation is fine as above. All the sentenses sounds like direct quotations to me, because it comes with "と". If indirect, I would say "月曜に出すよう言われましたが", but I've also heard that Japanese doesn't have clear difference between direct/indirect speech.

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