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These are all of the different ways I can think of (I might have missed some)
of how to request something in Japanese in no real particular order:

> しろ  
>  して  
>  してくれる  
>  してくれ  
>  してくれて  
>  してください  
>  しなさい

After some time of learning these conjugations I stumbled across various
sentences, usually in video games or recipes, that would use the base
dictionary form of a verb, rather than the above, to ask me to do something. I
have the feeling it also applies to telling myself to do something (in an
alarm for example) because saying 牛乳を買って feels a bit odd as opposed to saying
牛乳を買う, but I'm not entirely sure.

Here are a few more examples:

> －「信用して」と彼は言った。  
>  － できれば、数月に旅行へ出ていくときにうちのワンちゃんの面倒を見て下さい。
>
> － スポンジを作ります。ビターチョコレートを刻み、湯せんで溶かします。  
>  － ノーマルモードをクリアする

I imagine the latter doesn't really have much to do with requesting at all and
is more just used for instructions, but I'd just like to have a more concrete
definition of the difference/usages.
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Difference between using て form and dictionary form when requesting/instructing
しろ and しなさい are strong instruction words.

して and してくれ are words for requesting something friendly. してくれる? is more polite
than them. してください is more polite than してくれる?. してくれて is unnatural.

There are some more polite ways of saying it such as してくれませんか? and していただけますか?

Dictionary form is just saying what you do rather than suggestions and
instructions.
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