"Почему вы спрашиваете?"

Translation: Why do you ask?

[curanmor]

What's the difference between спрашивает and просить?

[Theron126]

Спрашивать/спросить is asking a question, просить/попросить is asking a favour.

[Maslanov]

Is спрашивать perfective and then спросить imperfective? Or is it the other way around?

[Shady_arc]

It is the other way round.

[mahankr]

Why not зачем?

[zirkul]

It will certainly work as a possible transaltion, but the emphasis would shift: "зачем"="for what purpose" while "почему=why". I.e. "Почему вы спрашиваете?" will allow the answer "because I didn't know that" or "because I've forgotten that" while "Зачем вы спрашиваете?" would not.

[Matt92HUN]

How would this be informally?

[Shady_arc]

Почему ты спрашиваешь?

Conjugation classes in Russian behave in a very predictable manner, unless you have a really irregular verb like есть (ешь / едите), хотеть (хочешь / хотите) or дать (дашь / дадите ; создать works similarly).

[kiddo-depido]

Is there a reason why вы is used mostly in this course? Is that the same in 'real life'?

[Shady_arc]

Actually, This course has about 200 sentences with вы and about 360 with ты. I did not count the oblique forms, though.

[kiddo-depido]

Then it's just my imagination xD. I really felt that вы was used way more frequently than ты.

Thanks for replying

[LDbag]

Regarding on your progresses, you may have randomly more phrases with вы than ты, independently of the course -if I get right how duolingo works :)

[Matt92HUN]

Yeah, I assumed this is an exception, since it didn't have that form under the hints, thanks.

[LobsterGhost]

In my opinion, "Why do you ask?" would be more natural in English. Can this sentence be translated that way?

[Theron126]

Sure, there's no reason why not.

[Jasonsudana]

Потому что я хочу знать.

[BrianFarre19]

I thought asks was просит

[Shady_arc]

Просить is the verbs that means asking for a favour or an object. Asking a question is спрашивать (also used for asking someone to call a person you came for or wish to speak with)

[StavatS]

When is it okay to omit personal pronouns? E.g., does Почему спрашиваете sound fine?

[yasmine_y]

It depends on the degree of familiarity you have with the other person, I guess?

[guido506552]

Are these common way of speaking, both in Russian and in English ? I'm asking this question because in Italian I would add a direct complement, like "Why do you ask that ?"

[danaymail.1]

Why are you asking?

[Rumata_]

Если здесь "р" заменить на "г", вопрос заиграет новыми красками.

[Mack364831]

How do I know the difference between something being вы singular or plural?

[lulume12]

Perhaps it should be what are you asking? not why, that sounds like dumb question