Can someone please help me: Don't ask me about it.

Question

I need help translating these sentences :

Tell (uds) me the story.

Don't ask me about it.

Don't ask me for the money.

In the first sentence, how do you give a command in the Uds. form?
In the next two sentences, how do you know if you use pedir or preguntar to ask a question?

Please show me how to translate these.

Thanks soooooooooo much.

E27

Answer 1

HI eli, Lazarus has given you an idea as to how to try, so let's see if you can do it and then we will help correct, welcome to the forum

Answer 2

For verbs ending in -ar, take the stem of the verb, and add -en.
For verbs ending in -er and -ir, take the stem of the verb, and add -an.

Examples:

tomar: the stem is tom- and the ending is -ar, so take the stem and add -en: tomen.
beber: the stem is beb- and the ending is -er, so take the stem and add -an: beban.

For the negative forms, "No tomen", "No beban".

This only works for regular verbs, of course.

Now, "pedir" means "ask for" (=to request); "preguntar" means "to ask" (=to make a question)