をくださいませんか

JLPT N5: ～をくださいませんか

If you haven't already done so, I HIGHLY recommend that you read the previous N5 lesson first:

JLPT N5: をください

The reason that I highly recommend doing so is that this lesson is essentially looking at the same thing.

In that lesson, we saw that to request something, you can say "SOMETHING をください."

～をください is already quite formal, but if you want to be super formal, then you can change ください to くださいませんか.

～をくださいませんか
won't you please give me ~; could you possibly give me ~
Note: くださいませんか is more formal than ください.

So all we need to do now is look at a few examples, and you'll be done.

NOUN + を + くださいませんか.

As mentioned in the previous lesson, it's OK to insert a word between を and ください(ませんか) when you want to specify something about the NOUN that you would like. So our alternative formation looks something like this:

NOUN + を + SPECIFICATION + ください(ませんか)

Again, as we already saw, sometimes the NOUN will be a noun that expresses an action (e.g. a noun that can also be used as a する verb):

Note that your sentence does not necessarily have to have を.

Specifically, を is (perhaps obviously) unnecessary when the object marked by を is dropped.

For example, the second sentence below does not need を because the object 苺 (いちご // strawberries) is getting dropped (and it's getting dropped because we know it from context, thanks to the first sentence):

No worries if you don't know how to make おいしい, "tasty; delicious; good," into おいしそう, "looks tasty," as we'll go over how to do this in a future N4 lesson.