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- "Él va a pedir agua."
39 Comments
AkraticMethod
1987
It's a specifically future-tense construction, as I understand it. The Spanish implies that in the future he will ask for water. "He goes to ask for water" in English sounds more like someone is literally going to a place to ask for water.
Melita2
318
Osama, all of us thought the same as you, until we learned otherwise. It works like buscar (look for) and mirar (look at). It's all-inclusive.
Another use of pedir is pedir + por meaning to plead for, to pray for. Pedir por la paz, pedir por mi papá.
RyagonIV
885
"Going to" is a fixed phrase that indicates that the action is happening in the near future. It rarely has something to do with actual walking.