pedías

Pedías is the second-person singular imperfect indicative form of the Spanish verb pedir, meaning to ask or to request. In Spanish grammar, the imperfect describes past actions that were ongoing, habitual, or set the scene, so pedías translates roughly as "you were asking for" or "you used to ask for."

Form and usage notes: Pedir is irregular in the present and preterite, but in the imperfect its forms follow regular -er/-ir endings with the stem ped-. Thus the paradigm is: yo pedía, tú pedías, él/ella/usted pedía, nosotros pedíamos, vosotros pedíais, ellos/ellas/ustedes pedían. The accent on í marks the stressed syllable, following standard Spanish pronunciation rules. Pedías is commonly used to describe repeated past requests or past contexts in which someone was asking for something.

Common distinctions: Pedías contrasts with pediste (the preterite form for a single, completed request) and with pedía (the third-person singular or formal you in the imperfect). It can introduce indirect questions or subordinate clauses, and with qué it asks about what was being asked for.

Ejemplos:

- ¿Qué pedías cuando llegaste? — What were you asking for when you arrived?

- Cuando era niño, me pedías que te contara cuentos. — When I was a child, you used to ask me to tell you stories.