No te pedi that isieras that?

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I'm Timothy, and this is Learncraft Spanish.

Yesterday we learned how to use the verb Preguntar to talk about asking for information.

For example, I'm going to ask him if he has it.

But what if what we are asking is not for information, but instead for someone to do something. For example, I am going to ask him

to do it. Spanish uses a different verb for this type of asking. The verb is pedir, spelled P-E-D-I-R.

And it basically means to request.

So here's that sentence in Spanish.

So this is literally, I'm going to request him that he'd do it.

We've used an indirect object in the first half,

and then the request itself is a ke phrase with a subjunctive.

Try it yourself in this next example.

I want to ask them to leave.

Les I want to pay them to leave. Now let's start conjugating this verb.

This verb ends in I-R, and it's conjugated mostly like Vibir, but with a few exceptions.

In the present tense,

the letter E changes to a letter I

when stressed,

just like in the verb,

Seguir.

So remember that in Seguir,

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