Pedir y Preguntar.

In English the verb to ask has a wider range of usage than the Spanish verb generally considered its equivalent, preguntar.

For example, in English you can say (1) I asked about the price and (2) I asked for a credit. In both cases the verb to ask was used. But in Spanish, preguntar is correct in example (1), so you’d say: Yo pregunte sobre el precio, but in example (2) the form of the verb pedir must be used, so you would say: Yo pide un credito. This is because in (1) I asked about and in (2) I asked for. Ask for is a verb on its own: pedir.

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