# preguntar
## Aragonese
### Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *praecūnctāre, alteration of Latin percontārī.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /pɾeɡunˈta(ɾ)/
* Rhymes: -a(ɾ)
* Syllabification: pre‧gun‧tar

### Verb

preguntar
* (transitive) to ask

### References

* Bal Palazios, Santiago (2002) “preguntar”, in Dizionario breu de a luenga aragonesa, Zaragoza, →ISBN

## Asturian
### Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *praecūnctāre, alteration of Latin percontārī.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /pɾeɡunˈtaɾ/ [pɾe.ɣ̞ũn̪ˈt̪aɾ]
* Rhymes: -aɾ
* Hyphenation: pre‧gun‧tar

### Verb

preguntar (first-person singular indicative present pregunto, past participle preguntáu)
* to ask
    Synonym: entrugar

#### Related terms

* pregunta

## Catalan
### Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish preguntar.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central, Balearic) [pɾə.ɣunˈta]
* IPA: (Valencia) [pɾe.ɣunˈtaɾ]
* Audio (Catalonia):(file)
* Rhymes: -a(ɾ)
* Hyphenation: pre‧gun‧tar

### Verb

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’]
* (pronominal) to ask oneself, to wonder [with sobre ‘about’]

#### Derived terms

* pregunta
* preguntar-se

### References

* “preguntar” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

## Galician
### Alternative forms

* perguntar

### Etymology

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese preguntar, from Vulgar Latin *praecūnctāre, alteration of Latin percontārī.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /pɾeɡunˈtaɾ/ [pɾe.ɣ̞un̪ˈt̪aɾ]
* IPA: (standard) /pɾeɡunˈtaɾ/ [pɾe.ɣ̞un̪ˈt̪aɾ]
* IPA: (gheada) /pɾeħunˈtaɾ/ [pɾe.ħun̪ˈt̪aɾ]
* Rhymes: -aɾ
* Hyphenation: pre‧gun‧tar

### Verb

preguntar (first-person singular present pregunto, first-person singular preterite preguntei, past participle preguntado)
* to ask

#### Conjugation

$^1$Less recommended.

#### Related terms

* pregunta

### References

* 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
### Etymology

Inherited from Vulgar Latin *praecūnctāre, alteration of Latin percontārī.

### Pronunciation

* Rhymes: -aɾ

### Verb

preguntar
* to ask

#### Descendants

* Galician: preguntar, perguntar
* Portuguese: perguntar, preguntar (archaic, dialectal)

### Further reading

* Universo Cantigas - "preguntar"

## Portuguese
### Etymology

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese preguntar, from Vulgar Latin *praecūnctāre, alteration of Latin percontārī.

### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /pɾe.ɡũˈta(ʁ)/ [pɾe.ɡũˈta(h)]
* (Brazil) IPA: /pɾe.ɡũˈta(ʁ)/ [pɾe.ɡũˈta(h)]
** (São Paulo) IPA: /pɾe.ɡũˈta(ɾ)/
** (Rio de Janeiro) IPA: /pɾe.ɡũˈta(ʁ)/ [pɾe.ɡũˈta(χ)]
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /pɾe.ɡũˈta(ɻ)/
* (Portugal) IPA: /pɾɨ.ɡũˈtaɾ/ [pɾɨ.ɣũˈtaɾ]
* (Portugal) IPA: /pɾɨ.ɡũˈtaɾ/ [pɾɨ.ɣũˈtaɾ]
** (Southern Portugal) IPA: /pɾɨ.ɡũˈta.ɾi/ [pɾɨ.ɣũˈta.ɾi]
* Hyphenation: pre‧gun‧tar

### Verb

preguntar (first-person singular present pregunto, first-person singular preterite preguntei, past participle preguntado)
* (archaic or dialectal) Alternative form of perguntar

#### Conjugation

$^1$Brazilian Portuguese. $^2$European Portuguese.

### Further reading

* “preguntar”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025

## Spanish
### Etymology

Inherited from Old Spanish preguntar, from Vulgar Latin *praecūnctāre, alteration of Latin percontārī.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /pɾeɡunˈtaɾ/ [pɾe.ɣ̞ũn̪ˈt̪aɾ]
* Audio (Colombia):(file)
* Rhymes: -aɾ
* Syllabification: pre‧gun‧tar

### Verb

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: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

$^1$Mostly obsolete, now mainly used in legal language. $^2$Argentine and Uruguayan voseo prefers the tú form for the present subjunctive.
These forms are generated automatically and may not actually be used. Pronoun usage varies by region.

#### Derived terms

* disparar primero y preguntar después
* preguntador
* preguntarse
* preguntón

#### Related terms

* pregunta

#### Descendants

* → Catalan: preguntar
* → Gallurese: pricuntà, pricuntà
* → Sardinian: preguntare, preguntari, perguntare, perguntai
* → Sassarese: priguntà

### Further reading

* “preguntar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10