Can you hand me...? Can you get me...?

[Awaken]

How would you ask your spouse to "get you a fork"?

Can you get me a fork? - ¿Puedes darme un tenedor? Obtener? Conseguir?

Can you hand me a fork?

Thanks.

[ookami]

Originally Posted by Awaken

How would you ask your spouse to "get you a fork"?

Can you get me a fork? - ¿Puedes darme un tenedor? Obtener? Conseguir?

Can you hand me a fork?

Thanks.

¿Puedes/Podrías darme un tenedor? / ¿Me darías un tenedor [por favor]?
¿Puedes/Podrías pasarme un tenedor? / ¿Me pasarías un tenedor [por favor]?

But if you are asking it to your spouse, I think the normal way would be an order: "Pasame un tenedor" / "Dame un tenedor" / "Me das un tenedor..."

You can use "alcanzar" too.

[Perikles]

Originally Posted by ookami

But if you are asking it to your spouse, ....

Off topic, but if you are asking your spouse

[poli]

Originally Posted by Awaken

How would you ask your spouse to "get you a fork"?

Can you get me a fork? - ¿Puedes darme un tenedor? Obtener? Conseguir?

Can you hand me a fork?

Thanks.

You can say dame el tenedor, but pásame el tenedor por favor is a lot better.

There is a verb to hand over in Spanish. It is entregar, but hand over something isn't the same as to hand somebody something.

[Awaken]

Perfect. Thanks. Is conseguir used often? Is there a most verb used in Spanish for "get" that can be used in most all situations?

"I am going to get the tickets"
"Let me get my shoes" etc...

[poli]

Originally Posted by Awaken

Perfect. Thanks. Is conseguir used often? Is there a most verb used in Spanish for "get" that can be used in most all situations?

"I am going to get the tickets"
"Let me get my shoes" etc...

If you mean I am going to buy the tickets you would say Voy a comprar
los boletos ( or billetes in Spain) but if you mean I am going to look for
the tickets you would say busco los boletos.
If you mean I am going to pick up the tickets (like at the box office) I would say voy a coger los boletos coger is seen as a very vulgar
word is some countries like Argentina so perhaps you can use recoger
instead

[ookami]

Thanks Perikles, can you explain me a little bit why better to leave behind "eso"?

Edit: "get" has a lot of meanings... you can't find a verb to translate it directly. "conseguir" is one of those meanings. "conseguir" is to reach a goal. You were searching for tickets for a show and... los conseguiste. But if you have a pair of shoes, and you are going to get them, "conseguir" would not be the normal verb there.
You are not "consiguiendo" a fork, you have it, you just want your spourse to give it to you. (Sorry, it's difficult for me to explain this in English, but "conseguir" is a quite limited verb, and "get" is a huge verb!)

[Perikles]

Originally Posted by ookami

Thanks Perikles, can you explain me a little bit why better to leave behind "eso"?

I don't quite undertand the question

[ookami]

Originally Posted by Perikles

I don't quite undertand the question

¿Porqué está mal?
if you are asking it to your spouse... si se lo estás preguntando a tu cónyuge
if you are asking your spouse.... si le estás preguntando a tu cónyugue
Are they the same?

[Perikles]

Originally Posted by ookami

¿Porqué está mal?
if you are asking it to your spouse... si se lo estás preguntando a tu cónyuge
if you are asking your spouse.... si le estás preguntando a tu cónyugue
Are they the same?

No, the first is incorrect. The verb to ask takes a direct object, not an indirect object:

I ask my wife for something to eat
I ask God for forgiveness
I ask you to consider this suggestion
I ask you for an opinion