question

Meaning

1. question (interrogation by torture)
2. question (sentence, phrase or word which asks for information, reply or response)
3. issue, matter, topic, problem

Gender

♀️ Feminine

Pronounced as (IPA)

/kɛs.tjɔ̃/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle French and Old French question (12th c.), borrowed from Latin quaestiō. At first a learned word, therefore retaining preconsonantal -s- (compare related quête).

Sentences

Elle est la première personne à y poser une question en langue amazigh .

She is the first person to ask a question in Amazigh.

Il s’agit bien de la question de la Bretagne , qui a déjà été évoquée .

This is the question of Brittany, which has already been mentioned.