question in English: A sentence or words you use when you want someone to give you an answer. (noun)

Translation

A sentence or words you use when you want someone to give you an answer.

Word origin

Comes from the Old French 'question', from the Latin 'quaestio', meaning an asking.

Origin: Old French
Root: question

Grammar

Gender

Pluralquestions

Examples

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Here 'question' means the words used to get an answer.

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Here 'question' means something the speaker wants to ask about.

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Here 'questions' is the plural, meaning more than one thing to answer.

A question is what you say or write when you want to get information from someone. The usual reply to a question is an answer.

Related words

answer

To say or write something back when someone asks you a question.

ask

To say a question, or to tell someone you want something.

why

Asks for the reason or cause of something.

reason

The fact that explains why something happens or why someone does something.

test

A set of questions or jobs that shows how much you know or how well something works.

clue

A small fact or sign that helps you find an answer or work out what happened.

confuse

To make someone unable to think clearly or to understand something.

depend

To need someone or something in order to live or to work, or to be decided by something else.

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