Pedir = to ask for something - to order a meal, ask for a loan, etc.
Preguntar = to ask a question.
Preguntar means 'to ask' as in a question. Pedir means 'to ask for' as in to ask someone for something. They cannot be used interchangeably. Te pido un favor. (I ask a favor of you.) Mi profesora pregunta muchas cosas en la clase de español. (My teacher asks many things in Spanish class.)
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Es necesario preguntar a un abogado. Las leyes son diferentes en cada estado.
gracias por preguntar
The verb "preguntar" in Spanish is used in order to ask a question or inquire about someone or something. This is the infinitive form of the verb "to ask". However, the verb "pedir" is used when borrowing, ordering, or requesting something. Also, to invite a person somewhere, the verb "invitar" is used.
Pide means he she or it asks, and can also mean the command "Ask" as in, if you told someone to ask. A separate word, preguntar, is used for asking questions. Pide, from pedir, is asking FOR something, or in other words requesting something.
pregúntale (infinitive preguntar)Compound of the informal second-person singular (tú) affirmative imperative form of preguntar, preguntaand the pronoun le.
to ask for or request
pedir
"Thanks for asking!" is an English equivalent of the Spanish phrase ¡Gracias por preguntar! The phrase translates preguntar literally as "to ask" since Spanish follows the preposition por with the present infinitive, not the present progressive preguntando, which does literally mean "asking." The pronunciation will be "GRA-syas por PREY-goon-TAR" in Uruguayan Spanish.
Que vas a pedir means "What are you going to order or ask" this phrase is used when talking to a waitor
pedir prestado