Is the word ask a verb

English[edit]

Alternative forms[edit]

  • aks, ax (standard until about 1600, now dialectal and no longer standard)
  • aske (obsolete)

Pronunciation[edit]

  • (UK)
    • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈɑːsk/
    • (Northern England, Scotland) IPA(key): /ˈask/
    • (multicultural London also) IPA(key): /ˈɑːks/
  • (US)
    • (General American) IPA(key): /ˈæsk/
    • (NYC, Philadelphia) IPA(key): /eəsk/
    • (AAVE, Cajun, Nigeria) enPR: ăks, IPA(key): /ˈæks/
  • Rhymes: -ɑːsk, -æsk
  • Homophones: ax, axe (some dialects)

Etymology 1[edit]

From Middle English asken (also esken, aschen, eschen, etc.), from Old English āscian, from Proto-West Germanic *aiskōn, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eys- (to wish; request). Compare German heischen, Dutch eisen.

Verb[edit]

ask (third-person singular simple present asks, present participle asking, simple past and past participle asked)

  1. (transitive or ditransitive) To request (information, or an answer to a question).

    I asked her age.

    I asked her (for) her age.

  2. To put forward (a question) to be answered.

    to ask a question

  3. To interrogate or enquire of (a person).

    I’m going to ask this lady for directions.

    • He is of age; ask him: he shall speak for himself.
  4. To request or petition; usually with for.

    to ask for a second helping at dinner

    to ask for help with homework

    Emma asked Jim to close his eyes.

    • Ask, and it shall be given you.
  5. To request permission to do something.

    She asked to see the doctor.

    Did you ask to use the car?

  6. To require, demand, claim, or expect, whether by way of remuneration or return, or as a matter of necessity.

    What price are you asking for the house?

    • But in any Exigence of State, like that they are now pressed with, it certainly asks a much longer time to conduct any Design, for the Good of the Common-wealth, to its Maturity and Perfection.
  7. To invite.

    Don’t ask them to the wedding.

  8. To publish in church for marriage; said of both the banns and the persons.
  9. (figuratively) To take (a person’s situation) as an example.
    • 1990 April 26, Paul Wiseman, “Dark days”, in USA Today:

      Even when the damage isn’t that clear cut, the intangible burdens of a bad image can add up. Just ask Dow Chemical.

Usage notes[edit]
  • This is a catenative verb that takes the to infinitive. See Appendix:English catenative verbs
  • Pronouncing ask as /æks/ is a common example of metathesis (attested since the Old English period) and still common in some varieties of English, notably African American Vernacular English (AAVE).
  • The action expressed by the verb ask can also be expressed by the noun-verb combination pose a question.
  • In older forms of English, when the pronoun thou was in active use, and verbs used -est for distinct second-person singular indicative forms, the verb ask had the form askest, and had askedst for its past tense.
  • Similarly, when the ending -eth was in active use for third-person singular present indicative forms, the form asketh was used.
Hyponyms[edit]
  • beg, beseech, demand, enquire, entreat, frain, implore, interrogate, petition, prompt, query, question, request, solicit, supplicate
Derived terms[edit]
  • ask after
  • ask around
  • ask box
  • ask for
  • ask for it
  • ask for someone’s hand in marriage
  • ask for the moon
  • ask for trouble
  • ask how high when someone says jump
  • ask in
  • ask me one about sport
  • ask me one on sport
  • ask my arse
  • ask out
  • ask over
  • ask round
  • ask the question
  • asking for a friend
  • don’t ask
  • don’t ask me
  • for the asking
  • I ask you
  • I thought you’d never ask
  • if you ask me
  • it’s better to ask forgiveness than permission
  • it’s easier to ask forgiveness than to get permission
  • never ask the barber if you need a haircut
  • no questions asked
  • outask
  • shoot first and ask questions later
  • who’s asking
Translations[edit]

request an answer

  • Aklanon: kutana
  • Albanian: pyet
  • Amharic: መጠየቅ (mäṭäyäḳ)
  • Arabic: سَأَلَ (ar) (saʔala)
    Egyptian Arabic: سأل(saʾal)
    Hijazi Arabic: سأل(saʾal)
    Moroccan Arabic: سقصى(saqṣa), سول(sawwal), سال(sāl)
  • Armenian: հարցնել (hy) (harcʿnel)
  • Aromanian: tser
  • Assamese: সোধা (xüdha)
  • Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܫܵܐܹܠ(šāʾēl), ܒܲܩܸܪ(baqir)
  • Asturian: entrugar, preguntar
  • Azerbaijani: soruşmaq (az)
  • Bashkir: һорау (horaw)
  • Basque: galdetu
  • Belarusian: пыта́ць impf (pytácʹ), спыта́ць pf (spytácʹ)
  • Bengali: জিজ্ঞাসা করা (jiggêśa kora), জানতে চাওয়া (janote caōẇa), প্রশ্ন করা (bn) (prôśnô kôra)
  • Berbice Creole Dutch: fragi
  • Breton: goulenn (br)
  • Bulgarian: пи́там (bg) impf (pítam)
  • Burmese: မေး (my) (me:)
  • Catalan: preguntar (ca), demanar (ca)
  • Central Atlas Tamazight: ⵙⵇⵙⴰ (sqsa)
  • Chechen: деха (dexa)
  • Cherokee: ᎠᏓᏛᏛᎲᏍᎦ (adadvdvhvsga)
  • Chichewa: -funsa
  • Chickasaw: asilhha, asilhlha, imasilhha, ittimasilhha
  • Chinese:
    Cantonese: (man6)
    Mandarin:  (zh) (wèn), 詢問询问 (zh) (xúnwèn)
  • Chuvash: ыйт (yjt)
  • Corsican: dumandà (co)
  • Czech: ptát se impf, zeptat se (cs) pf
  • Danish: spørge (da)
  • Dutch: vragen (nl)
  • Esperanto: demandi (eo)
  • Estonian: küsima, pärima
  • Faroese: spyrja (fo)
  • Finnish: kysyä (fi)
  • French: demander (fr), poser une question (fr)
  • Friulian: domandâ
  • Galician: preguntar
  • Georgian: იკითხავს (iḳitxavs), კითხვა (ḳitxva)
  • German: fragen (de), (eine Frage) stellen (de)
  • Gothic: 𐍆𐍂𐌰𐌹𐌷𐌽𐌰𐌽 (fraihnan)
  • Greek: ρωτώ (el) (rotó)
    Ancient: ἐρωτάω (erōtáō) (imperfective), ἠρόμην (ērómēn) (perfective), ἐρεείνω (ereeínō)
  • Greenlandic: aperivoq
  • Guaraní: porandu
  • Haitian Creole: mande
  • Hausa: tambaya (ha)
  • Hawaiian: nīnau, ui
  • Hebrew: שָׁאַל (he) (sha’ál)
  • Hindi: पूछना (hi) (pūchnā)
  • Hungarian: kérdez (hu), megkérdez (hu), kérdést tesz fel, érdeklődik (hu)
  • Hunsrik: frohe
  • Icelandic: spyrja (is)
  • Ido: questionar (io)
  • Indonesian: tanya (id)
  • Ingrian: kyssyä
  • Interlingua: demandar
  • Irish: ceistigh, fiafraigh, iarr, fiosraigh
    Old Irish: íarmi·foich, imm·comairc
  • Italian: chiedere (it), domandare (it), interrogare (it)
  • Jamaican Creole: aax, ax
  • Japanese: 聞く (ja) (きく, kiku), 尋ねる (ja) (たずねる, tazuneru), 伺う (ja) (うかがう, ukagau) (humble), 質問する (ja) (しつもんする, shitsumon suru)
  • Javanese: takon
  • Kannada: ಕೇಳು (kn) (kēḷu)
  • Kazakh: сұрау (kk) (sūrau)
  • Khmer: សួរ (km) (suə), សុំ (km) (som)
  • Komi-Permyak: юавны (juavny)
  • Korean: 묻다 (ko) (mutda), 질문하다 (ko) (jilmunhada), 여쭈다 (ko) (yeojjuda) (humble)
  • Kurdish:
    Central Kurdish: پرسین (ckb) (pirsîn), داوا کردن(dawa kirdin)
    Northern Kurdish: (please verify) pirsîn (ku), (please verify) pirs kirin (ku) , (please verify) pirsiyar kirin (ku)
  • Kyrgyz: суроо (ky) (suroo)
  • Lao: ຖາມ (thām)
  • Latgalian: lyugt, praseit
  • Latin: quaerō (la), scīscō, scīscitor, (please verify) scito (la), scītor, rogō
  • Latvian: jautāt
  • Lithuanian: paklausti (lt), klausti (lt), atsiklausti
  • Lombard: domandà
  • Low German:
    German Low German: frogen (nds)
  • Luxembourgish: froen (lb)
  • Lü: ᦏᦱᧄ (ṫhaam)
  • Macedonian: прашува impf (prašuva), праша pf (praša)
  • Maltese: saqsa, staqsa
  • Manchu: ᡶᠣᠨᠵᡳᠮᠪᡳ (fonjimbi)
  • Mauritian Creole: dimande
  • Middle English: asken, axen
  • Middle High German: vrâgen
  • Mongolian: асуух (mn) (asuux)
  • Moroccan Amazigh: ⵙⵇⵙⴰ (sᵊqsa), ⵙⵇⵙⵉ (sᵊqsi)
  • Neapolitan: dimannà
  • Nepali: सोध्नु (sodhnu)
  • Norman: d’mander (Jersey)
  • North Frisian:
    Föhr-Amrum: fraage
    Hallig: freege
    Helgoland: froage
    Mooring: frååge
    Sylt: fraagi
  • Northern Sami: jearrat
  • Northern Thai: ᨳᩣ᩠ᨾ
  • Norwegian:
    Bokmål: spørre (no)
    Nynorsk: spørje
  • Occitan: demandar (oc)
  • Old Church Slavonic:
    Cyrillic: пꙑтати impf (pytati)
  • Old East Slavic: пꙑтати impf (pytati)
  • Old English: friġnan, āscian
  • Old Frisian: āskia, fregia
  • Old High German: frâhên
  • Old Javanese: takwan, taña
  • Old Norse: fregna, spyrja
  • Oromo: gaafachuu
  • Ossetian: афӕрсын (afærsyn)
  • Persian: پرسیدن (fa) (porsidan), سؤال کردن(so’âl kardan)
  • Polish: pytać (pl) impf, zapytać (pl) pf
  • Portuguese: perguntar (pt)
  • Quechua: tapuy (qu), tapui
  • Romanian: întreba (ro)
  • Romansch: dumandar
  • Russian: спра́шивать (ru) impf (sprášivatʹ), спроси́ть (ru) pf (sprosítʹ), задава́ть (ru) impf (zadavátʹ), зада́ть (ru) pf (zadátʹ) (+ вопро́с (voprós))
  • Rusyn: просити ся (prosyty sja)
  • Sanskrit: पृच्छति (sa) (pṛcchati)
  • Sardinian: dimandhare
  • Saterland Frisian: fräigje
  • Scots: speir, frain
  • Scottish Gaelic: faighnich
  • Serbo-Croatian:
    Cyrillic: пи̏тати impf
    Roman: pȉtati (sh) impf
  • Shan: ထၢမ် (shn) (thǎam)
  • Sicilian: dumannari (scn), spiari (scn), dimannari (scn), addumannari (scn), addimannari (scn)
  • Slovak: pýtať sa impf
  • Slovene: vprašati (sl)
  • Spanish: preguntar (es)
  • Swahili: kuuliza
  • Swedish: fråga (sv), spörja (sv), ställa (en fråga) (sv)
  • Tagalog: magtanong
  • Tajik: пурсидан (tg) (pursidan)
  • Tamil: கேள் (ta) (kēḷ)
  • Tashelhit: ⵙⵇⵙⴰ (sᵊqsa)
  • Telugu: అడుగు (te) (aḍugu)
  • Thai: ถาม (th) (tǎam), ถามหา (tǎam-hǎa)
  • Tibetan: please add this translation if you can
  • Tocharian B: pärk-
  • Turkish: sormak (tr)
  • Turkmen: soramak
  • Udmurt: юаны (juany)
  • Ugaritic: 𐎌𐎀𐎍 (šảl)
  • Ukrainian: пита́ти (uk) impf (pytáty), запита́ти pf (zapytáty)
  • Urdu: پوچھنا(pūchnā)
  • Uyghur: سورىماق(sorimaq)
  • Uzbek: soʻramoq (uz)
  • Venetian: domandar, dimandar
  • Vietnamese: hỏi (vi)
  • Walloon: dimander (wa)
  • Welsh: gofyn (cy), holi (cy), ceisio (cy)
  • West Frisian: easkje, freegje
  • White Hmong: noog
  • Xhosa: ukubuza
  • Yagnobi: пурсак (pursak)
  • Yakut: ыйыт (ıyıt)
  • Yiddish: פֿרעגן(fregn)
  • Zhuang: cam
  • Zulu: buza, nxusa, ncenga, cela

make a request

  • Aghwan: 𐔱𐔴𐕚𐔴𐕚𐕒𐕡𐕎 (besesun)
  • Albanian: lut (sq)
  • Arabic: سَأَلَ (ar) (saʔala), طَلَبَ (ar) (ṭalaba)
    Egyptian Arabic: طلب(ṭalab)
  • Armenian: խնդրել (hy) (xndrel)
  • Assamese: খোজা (khüza)
  • Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܛܵܠܹܒ(ṭālēb), ܫܵܐܹܠ(šāʾēl)
  • Azerbaijani: diləmək, arzu etmək (az), xahiş etmək, tələb etmək
  • Basque: eskatu
  • Belarusian: прасі́ць impf (prasícʹ), папрасі́ць pf (paprasícʹ)
  • Bengali: চাওয়া (bn) (caōẇa), বলা (bn) (bola)
  • Bulgarian: мо́ля (bg) impf (mólja), и́скам (bg) impf (ískam)
  • Burmese: ပန် (my) (pan), တိုင် (my) (tuing)
  • Catalan: demanar (ca)
  • Cherokee: ᎠᏔᏲᎯᎭ (atayohiha)
  • Chickasaw: asilhha, asilhlha, imasilhha, ittimasilhha
  • Chinese:
    Mandarin:  (zh) (qǐng), 請求请求 (zh) (qǐngqiú)
  • Czech: žádat (cs)
  • Dalmatian: precur
  • Danish: bede (da)
  • Dutch: vragen (nl)
  • Esperanto: peti (eo)
  • Estonian: paluma
  • Finnish: pyytää (fi)
  • French: demander (fr)
  • Friulian: domandâ
  • Galician: pedir (gl)
  • Georgian: სთხოვს (stxovs), ითხოვს (itxovs)
  • German: bitten (de)
  • Greek: παρακαλώ (el) (parakaló), ζητώ (el) (zitó)
    Ancient: αἰτέω (aitéō), ἐξαιτέω (exaitéō), αἰτίζω (aitízō)
  • Hawaiian: noi, ui
  • Hebrew: ביקש בִּקֵּשׁ(bikésh), שָׁאַל (he) (sha’ál)
  • Hindi: पूछना (hi) (pūchnā), माँगना (hi) (māṅgnā)
  • Hungarian: kér (hu), megkér (hu)
  • Icelandic: spyrja (is), biðja (is)
  • Ido: demandar (io)
  • Indonesian: minta (id)
  • Irish: iarr, pléigh
  • Italian: chiedere (it), domandare (it)
  • Japanese: 頼む (ja) (たのむ, tanomu)
  • Kannada: ಕೇಳು (kn) (kēḷu)
  • Kazakh: өтіну (kk) (ötınu)
  • Khmer: សួរ (km) (suə), សុំ (km) (som)
  • Komi-Permyak: корны (korny)
  • Korean: 청하다 (ko) (cheonghada), 부탁하다 (ko) (butakhada)
  • Kurdish:
    Central Kurdish: پرسین (ckb) (pirsîn), داواکردن(dawakirdin)
    Northern Kurdish: xwestin (ku), daxwaz kirin (ku), dawa kirin (ku)
  • Lao: ຂໍ (lo) (khǭ), ຈັງ (chang)
  • Latin: rogō, precor, quaerō (la)
  • Latvian: prasīt, lūgt (lv), pieprasīt
  • Lithuanian: prašyti (lt)
  • Luxembourgish: bieden
  • Macedonian: моли impf (moli)
  • Mongolian: гуйх (mn) (gujx)
  • Norman: d’mander (Jersey)
  • Norwegian: be om
  • Old English: biddan
  • Old High German: bitten
  • Papiamentu: pidi
  • Persian: درخواستن(darxâstan)
  • Polish: prosić (pl) impf, poprosić (pl) pf
  • Portuguese: pedir (pt), solicitar (pt), requerer (pt), requisitar (pt)
  • Quechua: mañai
  • Romanian: cere (ro), invita (ro), ruga (ro)
  • Russian: проси́ть (ru) impf (prosítʹ), попроси́ть (ru) pf (poprosítʹ)
  • Sanskrit: पृच्छति (sa) (pṛccháti)
  • Scots: speir, frain
  • Scottish Gaelic: iarr
  • Serbo-Croatian:
    Cyrillic: пи̏тати impf, мо̀лити impf
    Roman: pȉtati (sh) impf, mòliti (sh) impf
  • Slovak: žiadať impf, prosiť (sk) impf
  • Slovene: prositi (sl) impf
  • Sorbian:
    Lower Sorbian: pšosyś
  • Spanish: pedir (es), requerir (es)
  • Sundanese: suhun
  • Swahili: kuomba
  • Swedish: be om
  • Tagalog: humingi, hingiin
  • Tajik: дархост кардан (darxost kardan)
  • Telugu: అడుగు (te) (aḍugu)
  • Thai: วาน (th) (waan), ขอ (th) (kɔ̌ɔ)
  • Turkish: dilemek (tr)
  • Turkmen: haýyş etmek
  • Udmurt: курыны (kuryny)
  • Ugaritic: 𐎌𐎀𐎍 (šảl)
  • Ukrainian: проси́ти impf (prosýty), попроси́ти pf (poprosýty)
  • Urdu: مانگنا(māṅgnā)
  • Uyghur: سوراش(sorash)
  • Uzbek: iltimos qilmoq
  • Venetian: domandar, dimandar
  • Vietnamese: cầu xin (vi)
  • Welsh: gofyn (cy), holi (cy), ceisio (cy)
  • Xhosa: ukucela
  • Yiddish: בעטן(betn)
  • Zulu: buza, nxusa, ncenga, cela

Noun[edit]

ask (plural asks)

  1. An act or instance of asking.
    • 2005, Laura Fredricks, The ask:

      To ask for a gift is a privilege, a wonderful expression of commitment to and ownership of the organization. Getting a yes to an ask can be a rush, but asking for the gift can and should be just as rewarding.

    • 2022 December 14, Christian Wolmar, “No Marston Vale line trains… and no one in charge seems to ‘give a damn’”, in RAIL, number 972, page 46:

      That really does not seem much of an ask.

  2. Something asked or asked for.
    Synonym: request

    I know this is a big ask, but …

    • 2008, Doug Fields, Duffy Robbins, Speaking to Teenagers:
      Communication researchers call this the foot-in-the-door syndrome. Essentially it’s based on the observation that people who respond positively to a small “ask” are more likely to respond to a bigger “ask” later on.
  3. An asking price.
  4. (Internet) A message sent to a blog on social networking platform Tumblr, which can be publicly posted and replied to by the recipient.
    • 2017, Abigail Oakley, «Supporting one another: Nonbinary community building on Tumblr», in Sex in the Digital Age (eds. Isabel K. Düsterhöft & Paul G. Nixon), unnumbered page:
      Answering ‘asks‘ like this is one common way that Tumblr bloggers interact with their followers, so it is in the act of publicly answering these asks that I examine community building practices.
    • 2018, Lynette Kvasny & Fay Cobb Payton, «African American Youth Tumbling Toward Mental Health Support-Seeking and Positive Academic Outcomes», in Diversifying Digital Learning: Online Literacy and Educational Opportunity (eds. Amanda Ochsner, William G. Tierney, & Zoë B. Corwin), page 168:
      The following example from Black Mental Health illustrates an ask from an anonymous follower seeking social support: []
    • 2020, Lee Brown, «Behind the Scenes of a Popular Trans Youth Resources Tumblr», in A Tumblr Book: Platforms and Cultures (eds. Alexander Cho, Allison McCracken, Indira N. Hoch, & Louisa Stein), page 265:
      Once the number of unanswered Asks in the inbox was over eight thousand, despite us deleting everything accumulated in the inbox once a year.
    • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:ask.
Derived terms[edit]
  • bid-ask spread
  • big ask
  • tough ask

Etymology 2[edit]


From Middle English aske, arske, ascre, from Old English āþexe (lizard, newt), from Proto-West Germanic *agiþahsijā (lizard), a compound of *agiz (snake, lizard) + *þahsuz (badger). Cognate of German Echse (lizard).

Alternative forms[edit]

  • asker, ascar, askerd, askard

Noun[edit]

ask (plural asks)

  1. (UK dialectal and Scotland) An eft; newt.
    • 1876, S. Smiles, Scottish Naturalist:

      He looked at the beast. It was not an eel. It was very like an ask.

  2. (UK dialectal) A lizard.
    • 1951, Malcolm Arthur Smith, The British Amphibians & Reptiles (page 258)
      We hear of Adder dens, but detailed accounts of the discovery of one are very rare. Service (1902) records that a peatman, when levelling on an estate by the Solway, found in a hole in the ground, some 8 inches below the surface, 40 adders, 10 toads and a large number of asks (lizards).

Anagrams[edit]

  • AKs, KAs, KSA, SAK, SKA, aks, kas, ska

Danish[edit]

en ask – Fraxinus angustifolia

Etymology[edit]

From Old Norse askr, from Proto-Germanic *askaz.

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /ask/

Noun[edit]

ask c (singular definite asken, plural indefinite aske)

  1. ash tree (Fraxinus spp.), especially, common ash (tree, Fraxinus excelsior)

Declension[edit]

References[edit]

  • “ask” in Den Danske Ordbog

Faroese[edit]

Alternative forms[edit]

  • askur m

Etymology[edit]

From Old Norse askr, from Proto-Germanic *askaz, *askiz.

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /ask/

Noun[edit]

ask f (genitive singular askar, plural askir)

  1. ash tree
  2. ash wood

Declension[edit]

Declension of ask
f2 singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative ask askin askir askirnar
accusative ask askina askir askirnar
dative ask askini askum askunum
genitive askar askarinnar aska askanna

Icelandic[edit]

Noun[edit]

ask

  1. indefinite accusative singular of askur

Northern Kurdish[edit]

Alternative forms[edit]

  • asik

Etymology[edit]

Ultimately derived from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eḱ-. Confer Persian آهو(âhu).

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /ɑːsk/

Noun[edit]

ask f (Arabic spelling ئاسک‎)

  1. gazelle
  2. deer

Declension[edit]

References[edit]

  • Chyet, Michael L. (2020), “ask”, in Ferhenga Birûskî: Kurmanji–English Dictionary (Language Series; 1), volume 1, London: Transnational Press, page 14

Norwegian Bokmål[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Old Norse askr, from Proto-Germanic *askaz.

Noun[edit]

ask m (definite singular asken, indefinite plural asker, definite plural askene)

  1. European ash (ash tree) Fraxinus excelsior

References[edit]

  • “ask” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Old Norse askr, from Proto-Germanic *askaz. Akin to English ash.

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /ɑsk/

Noun[edit]

ask m (definite singular asken, indefinite plural askar, definite plural askane)

  1. European ash (ash tree) Fraxinus excelsior

References[edit]

  • “ask” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Old Norse[edit]

Noun[edit]

ask

  1. accusative singular of askr

Old Saxon[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Proto-West Germanic *ask.

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /ɑs̺k/

Noun[edit]

ask m

  1. ash tree
  2. spear

Declension[edit]

Declension of ask (masculine a-stem)

Descendants[edit]

  • Middle Low German: esk
    • Plautdietsch: Asch

Swedish[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Old Swedish asker, from Old Norse askr, from Proto-Germanic *askaz, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ōs- (ash).

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

ask c

  1. European ash (tree) Fraxinus excelsior
  2. a small box (with a loose lid)
    Synonyms: låda, skrin

Declension[edit]

Declension of ask 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative ask asken askar askarna
Genitive asks askens askars askarnas

Descendants[edit]

  • Finnish: aski

Further reading[edit]

  • ask in Svensk ordbok.

Anagrams[edit]

  • sak, ska

Перевод ask с английского на русский

  • спрашивать (спросить, поинтересоваться, расспрашивать, расспросить, вопрошать, осведомиться, переспросить)
  • просить (запрашивать, запросить, попросить, испросить, испрашивать)
  • требовать (потребовать)
  • задавать (задать вопрос, задавать вопросы)
  • обратиться (обращаться)
  • предложить

Примеры

  • ask why (спрашивать зачем)
  • ask the teacher (спросить учителя)
  • ask for help (просить о помощи)
  • ask for information (запрашивать информацию)
  • ask the computer (запросить компьютер)
  • ask for assistance (попросить помощи)
  • ask for proofs (требовать доказательств)
  • ask for money (потребовать деньги)
  • ask stupid questions (задавать глупые вопросы)
  • ask for advice (обратиться за советом)
  • ask for trouble (напрашиваться на неприятности)

3 формы глагола с транскрипцией

Base Form
Инфинитив
Past Simple
2-ая форма
Past Participle
3-ая форма
(Причастие прошедшего времени)
Gerund
Герундий
ask asked asked asking
[æsk] [ˈæskt] [ˈæskt] [ˈæskɪŋ]
[ɑːsk] [ˈɑːskt] [ˈɑːskt] [ˈɑːskɪŋ]

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Спряжение ask в английском языке во всех временах, лицах и числах

Simple Tense — Простое (неопределенное) время

Present Simple
Простое настоящее

  • I ask
  • you ask
  • he, she asks
  • we ask
  • you ask
  • they ask

Past Simple
Простое прошедшее

  • I asked
  • you asked
  • he, she asked
  • we asked
  • you asked
  • they asked

Future Simple
Простое будущее

  • I will ask
  • you will ask
  • he, she will ask
  • we will ask
  • you will ask
  • they will ask

Continuous Tense — Длительное время

Present Simple Continuous
Настоящее длительное

  • I am asking
  • you are asking
  • he, she is asking
  • we are asking
  • you are asking
  • they are asking

Past Simple Continuous
Прошедшее длительное

  • I was asking
  • you were asking
  • he, she was asking
  • we were asking
  • you were asking
  • they were asking

Future Simple Continuous
Будущее длительное

  • I will be asking
  • you will be asking
  • he, she will be asking
  • we will be asking
  • you will be asking
  • they will be asking

Perfect Tense — Совершенное время

Present Perfect
Настоящее совершенное

  • I have asked
  • you have asked
  • he, she has asked
  • we have asked
  • you have asked
  • they have asked

Past Perfect
Прошедшее совершенное

  • I had asked
  • you had asked
  • he, she had asked
  • we had asked
  • you had asked
  • they had asked

Future Perfect
Будущее совершенное

  • I will have asked
  • you will have asked
  • he, she will have asked
  • we will have asked
  • you will have asked
  • they will have asked

Perfect Continuous Tense — Длительное совершенное время

Present Perfect Continuous
Настоящее совершенное длительное

  • I have been asking
  • you have been asking
  • he, she has been asking
  • we have been asking
  • you have been asking
  • they have been asking

Past Perfect Continuous
Прошедшее совершенное длительное

  • I had been asking
  • you had been asking
  • he, she had been asking
  • we had been asking
  • you had been asking
  • they had been asking

Future Perfect Continuous
Будущее совершенное длительное

  • I will have been asking
  • you will have been asking
  • he, she will have been asking
  • we will have been asking
  • you will have been asking
  • they will have been asking

Conditional — Условное наклонение

Present

  • I would ask
  • you would ask
  • he, she would ask
  • we would ask
  • you would ask
  • they would ask

Perfect

  • I would have asked
  • you would have asked
  • he, she would have asked
  • we would have asked
  • you would have asked
  • they would have asked

Present Continuous

  • I would be asking
  • you would be asking
  • he, she would be asking
  • we would be asking
  • you would be asking
  • they would be asking

Perfect Continuous

  • I would have been asking
  • you would have been asking
  • he, she would have been asking
  • we would have been asking
  • you would have been asking
  • they would have been asking

Imperative — Повелительное наклонение

Imperative

  • you ask
  • we Let’s ask
  • you ask

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Meanings of the verb ‘ask’

It is very difficult to understand the meaning of the context you’re reading or listening to if your knowledge of vocabulary is poor and superficial, which means that you know only one meaning of any word in English. For example, you know that ‘ask’ is a verb and it means ‘make a question’. However, it also means some other things such as ‘invite’ ‘make a request’, etc; not to mention phrasal verbs it forms and numerous collocations. My advice to you is to learn your vocabulary in context and look at its various meanings and uses in different contexts, as no word is a tree. Hence, you should use a monolingual dictionary and look at all possible meanings of the word ‘ask’.

Ask is a very common verb in English and as such it has several meanings:

To request an answer from someone:
  • She asked him a question.
  • They asked them about the new product.

    To make a request:

    • She asked the doctor to examine her.
    • They asked the bank for a loan.

      To seek information:

      • We asked local people for directions.
      • Amanda asked me about the film I watched.

      To invite:

      • The Johnsons have asked us to the party.
      • She asked them in for a coffee.

      To demand something:

      • They ask $20.000 for the house.
      • This job asks for a lot of patience.

      ASK + question word (what, who, where, when, how, why):

      • Jane asked me where I spent the weekend.
      • The guests asked who made the dinner.

      Meanings of the verb "ask"

      Meanings of the verb “ask”

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      3 формы глагола ask

      Английский глагол ask [æsk], переводится как: просить.
      Входит в группы:
      правильные глаголы,
      глаголы 5-й класс.

      3 формы глагола ask: Infinitive (ask), Past Simple — (asked), Past Participle — (asked).

      📚 Глагол ask имеет значения: просить, спрашивать, запрашивать, требовать, просить разрешения.

      👉 Формы глагола ask в настоящем и прошедшем времени 2-я и 3-я форма.
      ❓ Как будет ask в прошедшем времени past simple.

      Три формы глагола ask

      Base Form Past Simple Past Participle Перевод
      ask [æsk]

      asked [ɑːskt]

      asked [ɑːskt]

      просить

      Как поставить ask во 2-ю и 3-ю форму?

      🎓 Как поставить глагол ask в Past Simple, Future Simple, Present Perfect, Past Perfect, Future Perfect?

      👉 Всё очень просто, в этих временах прошедшего, будущего и совершённого времени, в английском используются 2я и 3я форма глагола:

      • First form (V1) — ask. (Present simple, Future Simple)
      • Second form (V2) —
        asked.

        (Past simple)

      • Third form (V3) —
        asked.

        (Present perfect, Past perfect)

      Как поставить ask в past simple?

      Если вы не совсем поняли какую форму для ask нужно использовать в прошедшем времени, будет:
      ask в past simple — asked.

      What is the past tense of ask?

      The past tense of ask is asked.

      The past participle of ask is asked.

      Временные формы глагола — Verb Tenses

      Past simple — ask в past simple, будет asked.
      (V2)

      Future simple — ask в future simple будет ask. (will + V1)

      Present Perfect — ask в present perfect будет
      asked.
      (havehas + V3)

      Past Perfect — ask в past perfect будет
      asked.

      (had + V3)

      Правильный или неправильный глагол ask?

      👉 Правильный это глагол ли нет? Глагол ask это правильный глагол.

      Примеры применения глагола ask

      •  
        How much are they asking? — Сколько они просят?
        (Present Continuous)

      •  
        The job in here asks time — Работа здесь требует времени.
        (Present Simple)

      •  
        She asked to close the front door — она попросила закрыть входную дверь.
        (Past Simple)

      •  
        He never asks money from his parents, he earns them on his own — Он никогда не просит деньги у родителей, он зарабатывает их сам.
        (Present Simple)

      •  
        I’m not asking, I’m begging you — Я не просто прошу тебя, я умоляю.
        (Present Continuous)

      •  
        We had asked them them for permission, but they answered nothing — Мы запросили разрешение, но они ничего не ответили.
        (Past Perfect)

      •  
        Have you asked them to make music quieter — Ты попросил их сделать музыку потише?
        (Present Perfect)

      •  
        I was asking for a spare chair out there — Я там спрашивал про запасной стул.
        (Past Continuous)

      •  
        He asked me out at last — Он наконец пригласил меня на свидание.
        (Past Simple)

      •  
        Will you accept if they ask you to the concert? — Ты пойдешь, если они пригласят тебя на концерт?
        (Present Simple)

      Вместе с ask, часто смотрят глаголы

      smell

      and shut.

      Глаголы на букву:

      r,

      d,

      u,

      c,

      m,

      p,

      b,

      w,

      h,

      a,

      e,

      g,

      s,

      q,

      j,

      l,

      t,

      f,

      o,

      n,

      k,

      i,

      v,

      y,
      z.

      Verb



      I need to ask a question.



      Did you ask her yet?



      “Have you seen the movie yet?” he asked.



      a list of frequently asked questions



      “If you don’t mind me asking, how old are you?” “I’m 35 years old. Why do you ask?”



      “Do they have any soda?” “I don’t know. I’ll go ask.”



      I would have given it to him, but he never asked.



      We had to stop and ask directions.



      May I ask the time?



      Did you ask permission to leave?

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      Andy Beshear, who was attorney general during the controversy, came to Elliott’s aid, asking that an order to reorganize the board be blocked.


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      Baker isn’t asking McCormick to become Altuve, a near-impossible task.


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      Since then, the Biden administration has appealed the case and asked the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals on Monday to put a hold on the judge’s nationwide injunction while the case is being considered by the upper court.


      Anne Flaherty, ABC News, 10 Apr. 2023





      The prompt was one of several reflections Keene asked his 10th-, 11th- and 12th-grade students to write on the topic of school shootings.


      Daniel Wu, Anchorage Daily News, 10 Apr. 2023





      However, when asked, Wahlberg wasn’t so sure.


      Corin Cesaric, Peoplemag, 10 Apr. 2023




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      Megha Mandavia, WSJ, 22 Mar. 2023





      Asking a man that large to bang against players like Sanogo and Clingan for that long is a tough ask, even for a player as talented as Bates.


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      But partisan rancor in Washington remains an unpredictable force, and getting the necessary 60 votes in a nearly evenly split Senate is a tough ask.


      Eli M. Rosenberg, NBC News, 17 Nov. 2022





      That’s a big ask, of course.


      Paul A. Smith, Journal Sentinel, 10 Nov. 2022





      Loss and damage is not a new ask.


      Rachel Ramirez, CNN, 7 Nov. 2022





      Replacing star runningback Tank Bigsby is a complex ask for offensive coordinator Philip Montgomery.


      al, 15 Feb. 2023





      Another car capable of wheelies is a reasonable ask in 2023, right?


      Jack Fitzgerald, Car and Driver, 13 Feb. 2023





      Martirano emphasized that the budget will require continued collaboration among the school system, county government and Maryland General Assembly to implement, but Ball signaled the initial ask was unachievable.


      Ethan Ehrenhaft, Baltimore Sun, 25 Jan. 2023



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