preguntar
Aragonese edit
Etymology edit
From Vulgar Latin *praecūnctāre, alteration of Latin percontārī.
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
preguntar
- (transitive) to ask
References edit
- Bal Palazios, Santiago (2002) “preguntar”, in Dizionario breu de a luenga aragonesa, Zaragoza, →ISBN
Asturian edit
Etymology edit
From Vulgar Latin *praecūnctāre, alteration of Latin percontārī.
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
preguntar (first-person singular indicative present pregunto, past participle preguntáu)
Conjugation edit
Related terms edit
Catalan edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Spanish preguntar.
Pronunciation edit
- IPA(key): (Central, Balearic) [pɾə.ɣunˈta]
- IPA(key): (Valencian) [pɾe.ɣunˈtaɾ]
Audio (Catalonia): (file) - Rhymes: -a(ɾ)
- Hyphenation: pre‧gun‧tar
Verb edit
preguntar (first-person singular present pregunto, first-person singular preterite preguntí, past participle preguntat)
- to ask
- Synonym: demanar
- to ask [+ sobre (object) = about]
- to ask [+ per (object) = for]
- (takes a reflexive pronoun) to ask oneself, to wonder [+ sobre (object) = about]
Conjugation edit
Derived terms edit
References edit
- “preguntar” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
Galician edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese preguntar, from Vulgar Latin *praecūnctāre, alteration of Latin percontārī.
Pronunciation edit
- Rhymes: -aɾ
- Hyphenation: pre‧gun‧tar
Verb edit
preguntar (first-person singular present pregunto, first-person singular preterite preguntei, past participle preguntado)
- to ask
Conjugation edit
1Less recommended.
Related terms edit
References edit
- “preguntar” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
- “preguntar” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
- “preguntar” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
- “preguntar” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
- “preguntar” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.
Old Galician-Portuguese edit
Etymology edit
Inherited from Vulgar Latin *praecūnctāre, alteration of Latin percontārī.
Pronunciation edit
- Rhymes: -aɾ
Verb edit
preguntar
- to ask
Conjugation edit
infinitive | simple | preguntar | |||||||
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compound | infinitive of haver1 or tẽer2 + past participle | ||||||||
gerund | simple | preguntando | |||||||
compound | gerund of haver1 or tẽer2 + past participle | ||||||||
past participle | singular | plural | |||||||
masculine | preguntado | preguntada | |||||||
feminine | preguntados | preguntadas | |||||||
present participle | preguntante | preguntantes | |||||||
person | singular | plural | |||||||
first | second | third | first | second | third | ||||
indicative mood | eu | tu | el~ele ela vossa mercee |
nos nos outros nos outras |
vos vos outros vos outras |
eles elas | |||
simple tenses |
present | pregunto | preguntas | pregunta | preguntamos | preguntades | preguntam3, preguntan4 | ||
imperfect | preguntava | preguntavas | preguntava | preguntavamos | preguntavades | preguntavam3, preguntavan4 | |||
preterite | preguntei | preguntaste3, preguntasche4 | preguntou | preguntamos | preguntastes | preguntarom3, preguntaron4 | |||
pluperfect | preguntara | preguntaras | preguntara | preguntaramos | preguntarades | preguntaram3, preguntaran4 | |||
future | preguntarei | preguntarás | preguntará | preguntaremos | preguntaredes | preguntarám3, preguntarán4 | |||
conditional | preguntaría | preguntarías | preguntaría | preguntariamos | preguntariades | preguntaríam3, preguntarían4 | |||
compound tenses |
present perfect | present of haver1 or tẽer2 + past participle | |||||||
present imperfect | imperfect of haver1 or tẽer2 + past participle | ||||||||
past anterior | preterite of haver1 or tẽer2 + past participle | ||||||||
pluperfect | simple pluperfect of haver1 or tẽer2 + past participle | ||||||||
future perfect | future of haver1 or tẽer2 + past participle | ||||||||
conditional perfect | conditional of haver1 or tẽer2 + past participle | ||||||||
subjunctive mood | eu | tu | el~ele ela vossa mercee |
nos nos outros nos outras |
vos vos outros vos outras |
eles elas | |||
simple tenses |
present | pregunte | preguntes | pregunte | preguntemos | preguntedes | preguntem3, pregunten4 | ||
preterite | preguntasse | preguntasses | preguntasse | preguntássemos | preguntássedes | preguntassem3, preguntassen4 | |||
future | preguntar | preguntares | preguntar | preguntarmos | preguntardes | preguntarem3, preguntaren4 | |||
compound tenses |
present perfect | present subjunctive of haver1 or tẽer2 + past participle | |||||||
pluperfect | preterite subjunctive of haver1 or tẽer2 + past participle | ||||||||
future perfect | future subjunctive of haver1 or tẽer2 + past participle | ||||||||
imperative mood | — | tu | vossa mercee | nos nos outros nos outras |
vos vos outros vos outras |
— | |||
affirmative | — | pregunta | pregunte | preguntemos | preguntade | — | |||
negative | — | non preguntes | non pregunte | non preguntemos | non preguntedes | — | |||
personal infinitive | eu | tu | el~ele ela vossa mercee |
nos nos outros nos outras |
vos vos outros vos outras |
eles elas | |||
preguntar | preguntares | preguntar | preguntarmos | preguntardes | preguntarem3, preguntaren4 | ||||
1 Its alternative form aver can be used as well. 2 Teer and ter were used too, though all 3 were less common than forms of "haver". 3 Less common in Galicia 4 Less common in Portugal |
Descendants edit
Further reading edit
Portuguese edit
Etymology edit
Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese preguntar, from Vulgar Latin *praecūnctāre, alteration of Latin percontārī.
Pronunciation edit
- Hyphenation: pre‧gun‧tar
Verb edit
preguntar (first-person singular present pregunto, first-person singular preterite preguntei, past participle preguntado)
Conjugation edit
1Brazilian Portuguese.
2European Portuguese.
Further reading edit
Spanish edit
Etymology edit
Inherited from Old Spanish preguntar, from Vulgar Latin *praecūnctāre, alteration of Latin percontārī.
Pronunciation edit
- IPA(key): /pɾeɡunˈtaɾ/ [pɾe.ɣ̞ũn̪ˈt̪aɾ]
Audio (Colombia): (file) - Rhymes: -aɾ
- Syllabification: pre‧gun‧tar
Verb edit
preguntar (first-person singular present pregunto, first-person singular preterite pregunté, past participle preguntado)
- to ask
- Me preguntó por su hija.
- He asked me about his daughter.
- Le preguntamos a la profesora cómo proceder.
- We asked the teacher how to proceed.
- 2016 September 30, “La salud es la clave para campaña Canó”, in Listin Diario[1]:
- Al preguntársele lo que significaba el fijar un récord personal en jonrones esta campaña, lo primero que Canó destacó fue su trabajo durante la temporada muerta después de su operación en Filadelfia para solucionar las hernias.
- When he was asked what reaching a [new] personal homerun record this season meant, Canó first highlighted his work during the offseason after his surgery in Philadelphia to address his hernias.
- (reflexive) to wonder, to ask oneself, to ponder
- Me pregunté si todo había sido un sueño.
- I wondered if everything had been a dream.
- Todavía me pregunto cómo pudo pasar eso.
- I still wonder how that could happen.
Conjugation edit
These forms are generated automatically and may not actually be used. Pronoun usage varies by region.
Derived terms edit
Related terms edit
Descendants edit
- → Catalan: preguntar
- → Gallurese: pricuntà, pricuntà
- → Sardinian: preguntare, preguntari, perguntare, perguntai
- → Sassarese: priguntà
Further reading edit
- “preguntar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014