question - English word #215

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.

Gender

Pluralquestions

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

homework.

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

Please answer .

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.

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.

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