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こんにちは、みなさん！

Hey guys, so, I'm familiar with the verb '聞く' when translating the verb 'to
ask', as in for information. But, what about when asking/requesting someone to
do something? (Similar to 'preguntar/pedir' in Spanish)

I've seen the verb '頼む' before, but I'm not sure how to use it nor if it's
even the correct verb to use.

Let's look at the following sentences:

>   1. I played football on Wednesday because my friend asked me to.
>   2. My brother asked me to play football
>

My attempts:

>   1. 私の友達は私に頼みましたから、水曜日にサッカーをしました。
>   2. 兄は私にサッカーを....?
>

Thanks in advance guys!

よろしくお願いします！
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Because my friend asked me to
I played football on Wednesday because my friend asked me to.  
(私は友達にやろうと言われたから水曜日にサッカーをした。) or (私は友達に頼まれたから水曜日にサッカーをした。)  
The former one sounds like the friend said “Let’s play football!”  
As for the latter one, “I beg you!”  
My brother asked me to play football.  
(私は兄にサッカーをやらないか聞かれた。) or (私は兄にサッカーをやってほしいと言われた。)  
The difference is the same as the first sentence.

You can make 私 the Subject, but it sounds like a sentence in a novel.  
Usually we don’t want to say the subject, so we often make 私 the subject so
that we can abbreviate it.
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When you want to ask/tell someone **to do** something else, you use the
pattern 〜<thing to do verb>ように<ask/tell verb>. So your second example would be

> 兄は私 **が** サッカーをする **ように（私に）頼みました**

Notice that it's 私 **が** for the thing you are being asked to do, and 私 **に**
to indicate who he asked. Since both of them are 私, you can safely omit the 私
**に** because it's just redundant at that point.

Also, your first sentence contains some redundancies and a mistake. It should
be

> 友達 **が** 頼みましたから、（私 **は** )水曜日にサッカーをしました

The 私の and 私に are again redundant. But the topic of the sentence is _you_ and
what you did, so this is where the は should go, and what your friend did
should be marked with **が**. However, it's implied that you're the one playing
soccer, so you can omit the 私は.
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My attempts are:

1(a) 友達に頼まれて水曜日にサッカーをした。

1(b) 友達に誘われて水曜日にサッカーをした。

You can use either to mean the same, but I like 1(b) better because 1(a) could
mean that, when you were asked, you were reluctant but your friend talked you
into playing soccer. Off course, saying 1(b) does not exclude such possibility
but at least it sounds more positive to me.

2(a) 兄（弟）にサッカーをしようと誘われた。

2(b) 兄（弟）にサッカーをしようと言われた。

Either is fine, and there are many other ways to say this.
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