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.

[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.

[Perikles]

Originally Posted by ookami

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

Off topic, but if you are asking your spouse

[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...

[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

[ookami]

Ahh, I see, I did't know that. Thank you.