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): (Valencia) [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 [with sobre ‘about’]
- to ask [with per ‘for’]
- (takes a reflexive pronoun) to ask oneself, to wonder [with sobre ‘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]- Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “preguntar”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “preguntar”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
- Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “preguntar”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “preguntar”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “preguntar”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN
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 ei |
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 | preguntan | ||
imperfect | preguntava | preguntavas | preguntava | preguntavamos, preguntávamos | preguntavades, preguntávades | preguntavan | |||
preterite | preguntei | preguntaste, preguntasche, preguntache | preguntou | preguntamos | preguntastes | preguntaron | |||
pluperfect | preguntara | preguntaras | preguntara | preguntaramos, preguntáramos | preguntarades, preguntárades | preguntaran | |||
future | preguntarei | preguntarás | preguntará | preguntaremos | preguntaredes | preguntarán | |||
conditional | preguntaria | preguntarias | preguntaria | preguntariamos, preguntaríamos | preguntariades, preguntaríades | preguntarian | |||
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 ei |
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 | pregunten | ||
preterite | preguntasse | preguntasses | preguntasse | preguntássemos | preguntássedes | preguntassen | |||
future | preguntar | preguntares | preguntar | preguntarmos | preguntardes | preguntaren | |||
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 ei |
tu | el~ele ela vossa mercee |
nos nos outros nos outras |
vos vos outros vos outras |
eles elas | |||
preguntar | preguntares | preguntar | preguntarmos | preguntardes | preguntaren | ||||
1 Its alternative spelling, aver, can be used as well. 2 Teer and ter were used too, though all 3 were less common than forms of "haver". |
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]- “preguntar”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2024
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
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