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proud spear
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For a given verb, each of the three imperative persons (tu, nous and vous) has one given form. These three forms are regular.
Vouloir is a particular case in as each person has two different forms, the regular one and the formal one.
We'd never make our requests too direct, so we do it softly instead with veuille, veuillons (which isn't so much of a thing) and veuillez. We pretty much only use veuillez in formal imperative requests.
Vouloir still as the regular forms veux, voulons and voulez but they appear in the expressions that don't have any relation with want, like en vouloir à. We usually see those forms in the negative such as "ne m'en veux pas".

fiery cliff
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It's used veuillez + requested action

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Same as English "please [action]"

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As Nameless said, other verbs do not have a "formal form" - they do have a "vous" form, which can be formal/respectful when referring to a single person, but it's not a separate form to the verb

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I'd suggest learning more about the imperative and vouvoiement if you'd like to understand it more thoroughly, but it's likely being taught because it's relatively easy to use or understand without needing to know the specifics behind it, imperative is a relatively low priority tense

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So it's okay to just accept "veuillez x" = formal "please x"

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proud spear
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Vouloir is the only verb that possesses two different groups of imperative forms.

fiery cliff