perguntar
Portuguese
Alternative forms
- (archaic or dialectal) preguntar
Etymology
Metathesis of preguntar, inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese preguntar, from Vulgar Latin *praecūnctāre, alteration of Latin percontārī.
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /peʁ.ɡũˈta(ʁ)/ [peɦ.ɡũˈta(h)]
- (São Paulo) IPA(key): /peɾ.ɡũˈta(ɾ)/
- (Rio de Janeiro) IPA(key): /peʁ.ɡũˈta(ʁ)/ [peʁ.ɡũˈta(χ)]
- (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /peɻ.ɡũˈta(ɻ)/
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /pɨɾ.ɡũˈtaɾ/ [pɨɾ.ɣũˈtaɾ], (dialectal) /pɾɨ.ɡũˈtaɾ/ [pɾɨ.ɣũˈtaɾ]
- (Southern Portugal) IPA(key): /pɨɾ.ɡũˈta.ɾi/ [pɨɾ.ɣũˈta.ɾi], (dialectal) /pɾɨ.ɡũˈta.ɾi/ [pɾɨ.ɣũˈta.ɾi]
- (Northeast Brazil) IPA(key): /pɛɦ.ɡũˈta(h)/
- (Rural Central Brazil) IPA(key): /piɹ.ɡũˈta(ɹ)/
- Hyphenation: per‧gun‧tar
Verb
perguntar (first-person singular present pergunto, first-person singular preterite perguntei, past participle perguntado)
- (transitive) to ask (request an answer)
- Synonyms: indagar, inquirir, interpelar, interrogar, questionar
- Antonyms: replicar, responder
- Pergunta a alguém. ― Ask anybody.
- Alguém perguntou por si. ― Someone asked for you.
- (takes a reflexive pronoun) to wonder (query in the mind)
- Synonym: ponderar
- "Que horas são", perguntou-se. ― "What time is it?" he wondered.
- (reflexive) to ask oneself (to ponder about something)
- Synonym: ponderar
Conjugation
1Brazilian Portuguese.
2European Portuguese.
Related terms
- pergunta
- perguntação
- perguntadeiro
- perguntador
- perguntante
- perguntão
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