{"id":91,"date":"2008-09-05T16:00:48","date_gmt":"2008-09-05T20:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/?p=91"},"modified":"2008-09-05T16:00:48","modified_gmt":"2008-09-05T20:00:48","slug":"ask-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/ask-away\/","title":{"rendered":"Ask away!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;<em>Ask<\/em>&#8221; has several meanings in Spanish. They&#8217;re not interchangeable, and there are some subtle differences in meaning.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Preguntar<\/em><\/strong> &#8211; &#8220;to ask a question&#8221; or &#8220;to ask about&#8221; something.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Pregunt\u00f3 por ti en la fiesta. &#8211; <\/em>He asked about you at the party.<\/li>\n<li><em><\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Pregunt\u00e9 si hab\u00edan estudiado para la prueba.<\/em> &#8211; I asked if they had studied for the test.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em><\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Pedir<\/em><\/strong> &#8211; used to indicate a direct request or to ask for something.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Pidi\u00f3 un libro de espa\u00f1ol. &#8211; <\/em>She asked for a Spanish book.<\/li>\n<li><em>Me pidi\u00f3 dinero pero le dije que no ten\u00eda un centavo. &#8211; <\/em>He asked me for money but I told him I didn&#8217;t have a penny.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><em>Rogar<\/em><\/strong> &#8211; to make a formal request, or also to beg or to pray.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Se ruega a los clientes que tomen las precauciones oportunas para salvaguardar sus pertenencias.<\/em> Customers are asked to take appropriate precautions in order to protect their belongings.<\/li>\n<li><em><\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Fuimos a la iglesia para rogar.<\/em> &#8211; We went to the church to pray.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><em>Invitar<\/em><\/strong> &#8211; can be used when asking someone out to do something or go somewhere.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em><\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Te invito a mi casa a echarnos un trago.<\/em> &#8211; Come to my house to have a drink.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><em>Solicitar<\/em><\/strong> &#8211; used with certain types of requests, such as for information, or in business or legal contexts.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Solicitan amnist\u00eda para el ex presidente.<\/em> &#8211; They are requesting an amnesty for the former president.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>See you next time!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Ask&#8221; has several meanings in Spanish. They&#8217;re not interchangeable, and there are some subtle differences in meaning. Preguntar &#8211; &#8220;to ask a question&#8221; or &#8220;to ask about&#8221; something. Pregunt\u00f3 por ti en la fiesta. &#8211; He asked about you at the party. Pregunt\u00e9 si hab\u00edan estudiado para la prueba. &#8211; I asked if they had&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"post-item__readmore\"><a class=\"btn btn--md\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/ask-away\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[22,358369],"class_list":["post-91","post","type-post","status-publish","hentry","category-vocabulary","tag-ask","tag-vocabulary"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}