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Today we're going to explore the verb,

Preguntar, which means to ask.

This is very clearly related to the noun,

pregunta, which means question.

Here's a simple sentence example.

I have to ask him something.

So,

Preguntar is a verb that tends to take both direct and indirect objects.

In this sentence, le is the indirect object, the recipient of what is being asked.

And then the direct object is Algo.

Try it yourself in this next example

where the word them

is going to be an indirect object

in Spanish.

I want to ask them another thing.

Les I want to question other other thing. There are There are quite a few verbs in Spanish that take both direct and indirect objects like this.

The first one that we learned was,

Acer.

So, for example, let's take the sentence,

I have to ask him something,

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