ASK

Ask after. Ask for.

• Ask after: preguntar por (salud).
• To ask for information about someone, especially about their health.
• Tell your father I was asking after him.
• I run into your old friends Vichi and Peter yesterday, they asked after you.
• Ask for: solicitar.
• To say that you would like to see or speak to someone:
• A young man was here asking for you this morning.
• He wrote asking for help.
• There´s someone asking for you at reception.
• If you say you couldn´t ask for someone or something better, you mean that that person or thing is the best of their type:
• She is great to work for, I really couldn´t ask for a better boss.