(intransitive, followed by à) to ask (a person) / (transitive) to request / (reflexive) to wonder

to ask for forgiveness, to apologise to [+ à (someone)] / to beg (someone's) pardon (to enquire whether one has heard something right) [+ à (someone)]

to ask for advice, to seek advice from [+ à (someone)]

(figuratively) to ask the impossible

(figuratively) to ask for the moon, to ask the impossible

to ask for the right to speak, to ask for permission to speak, to ask to speak

(transitive) to propose (to ask for someone's hand in marriage)

to refuse to believe something before seeing it, to doubt something, to be sceptical

(figuratively) to ask for someone's hand in marriage

(figuratively) to leave without further ado, to leave without a murmur, to take to one's heels