pedir
Meanings
Verb
1. to ask for something (transitive)
2. to request someone else to do something
3. to order something (transitive, also reflexive)
4. to order (intransitive)
5. to call, call in (e.g. to call for help, to call for backup, to call in a favor) (transitive)
6. to plead
Examples1382
¿Puede pedirle el dinero?
Can you ask her for the money?
Pido que ustedes estén ahí a la una.
I ask that you be there at one o'clock.
Voy a pedir una hamburguesa.
I am going to order a burger.
Él le pidió agua al camarero.
He asked the waiter for water.
Tom me pidió que lo haga.
Tom asked me to do it.
Me pidió que fuera con él.
He begged me to go with him.