From Vulgar Latin *praecūnctāre, alteration of Latin percontārī.

• IPA^(key): /pɾeɡunˈta(ɾ)/
• Syllabification: pre‧gun‧tar
• Rhymes: -a(ɾ)

preguntar

1. (transitive) to ask

• “preguntar”, in Aragonario, diccionario aragonés–castellano (in Spanish)
• Bal Palazios, Santiago (2002), “preguntar”, in Dizionario breu de a luenga aragonesa, Zaragoza, →ISBN

From Vulgar Latin *praecūnctāre, alteration of Latin percontārī.

• IPA^(key): /pɾeɡunˈtaɾ/ [pɾe.ɡũn̪ˈt̪aɾ]
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: pre‧gun‧tar

preguntar (first-person singular indicative present pregunto, past participle preguntáu)

1. to ask

   Synonym: entrugar

• pregunta

• Xosé Lluis García Arias (2002–2004), “preguntar”, in Diccionario general de la lengua asturiana [General Dictionary of the Asturian Language] (in Spanish), Editorial Prensa Asturiana, →ISBN
• “preguntar”, in Diccionariu de la llingua asturiana [Dictionary of the Asturian Language] (in Asturian), 1st edition, Academy of the Asturian Language [Asturian: Academia de la Llingua Asturiana], 2000, →ISBN

Borrowed from Spanish preguntar.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [pɾə.ɣunˈta]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [pɾe.ɣunˈtaɾ]

• Audio (Catalonia):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -a(ɾ)
• Hyphenation: pre‧gun‧tar

preguntar (first-person singular present pregunto, first-person singular preterite preguntí, past participle preguntat)

1. to ask

   Synonym: demanar

2. to ask [with sobre ‘about’]
3. to ask [with per ‘for’]
4. (pronominal) to ask oneself, to wonder [with sobre ‘about’]

• pregunta
• preguntar-se

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

• perguntar

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

• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Hyphenation: pre‧gun‧tar

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

1. to ask

• pregunta

• Seoane, Ernesto Xosé González; Granja, María Álvarez de la; Agrelo, Ana Isabel Boullón (2006–2022), “preguntar”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval [Dictionary of dictionaries of Medieval Galician] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Barreiro, Xavier Varela; Guinovart, Xavier Gómez (2006–2018), “preguntar”, in Corpus Xelmírez: corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval [Corpus Xelmírez: linguistic corpus of Medieval Galicia] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• 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

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

• Rhymes: -aɾ

preguntar

1. to ask

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

• Universo Cantigas - "preguntar"

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

• Hyphenation: pre‧gun‧tar

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

1. (archaic or dialectal) alternative form of perguntar

• “preguntar”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “preguntar”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

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

• IPA^(key): /pɾeɡunˈtaɾ/ [pɾe.ɣ̞ũn̪ˈt̪aɾ]

• Audio (Colombia):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: pre‧gun‧tar

preguntar (first-person singular present pregunto, first-person singular preterite pregunté, past participle preguntado)

1. (ditransitive, ambitransitive) 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^[1]:

     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.

2. (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.

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

• “preguntar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025

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