質問

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See also: 质问

Chinese

hostage; substance; nature
hostage; substance; nature; quality
 
 to ask
trad. (質問) 質 問
simp. (质问) 质 问

Pronunciation

Verb

質問

  1. to question; to interrogate; to call to account

Synonyms

Japanese

Kanji in this term
質 問
しつ
Grade: 5 		もん
Grade: 3
kan'on goon

Etymology

Ultimately from Middle Chinese 質問 (MC tsyit mjunH, literally “quality + ask”), apparently borrowed later as a learned borrowing from Literary Chinese of the same source term.

First attested in 1771.[1]

Pronunciation

Noun

質(しつ)問(もん) • (shitsumon) 

  1. a question
    Synonym: (implies that there is a doubt about something) 疑問 (gimon)

Verb

質(しつ)問(もん)する • (shitsumon suru) suru (stem 質(しつ)問(もん)し (shitsumon shi), past 質(しつ)問(もん)した (shitsumon shita))

  1. to ask a question
    Synonyms: 聞く (kiku), 問う (tou), 尋ねる (tazuneru), (humble) 伺う (ukagau)

Conjugation

Conjugation of "質問する" (See Appendix:Japanese verbs.)
Katsuyōkei ("stem forms")
Mizenkei ("imperfective") 質問し しつもんし shitsumon shi
Ren’yōkei ("continuative") 質問し しつもんし shitsumon shi
Shūshikei ("terminal") 質問する しつもんする shitsumon suru
Rentaikei ("attributive") 質問する しつもんする shitsumon suru
Kateikei ("hypothetical") 質問すれ しつもんすれ shitsumon sure
Meireikei ("imperative") 質問せよ¹
質問しろ² 		しつもんせよ¹
しつもんしろ² 		shitsumon seyo¹
shitsumon shiro²
Key constructions
Passive 質問される しつもんされる shitsumon sareru
Causative 質問させる
質問さす 		しつもんさせる
しつもんさす 		shitsumon saseru
shitsumon sasu
Potential 質問できる しつもんできる shitsumon dekiru
Volitional 質問しよう しつもんしよう shitsumon shiyō
Negative 質問しない しつもんしない shitsumon shinai
Negative continuative 質問せず しつもんせず shitsumon sezu
Formal 質問します しつもんします shitsumon shimasu
Perfective 質問した しつもんした shitsumon shita
Conjunctive 質問して しつもんして shitsumon shite
Hypothetical conditional 質問すれば しつもんすれば shitsumon sureba
¹ Written imperative

² Spoken imperative

References

  1. ^ Shōgaku Tosho (1988) 国語大辞典（新装版） [Unabridged Dictionary of Japanese (Revised Edition)] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, →ISBN
  2. ^ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  3. ^ NHK Broadcasting Culture Research Institute, editor (1998), NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 [NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary] (in Japanese), Tokyo: NHK Publishing, Inc., →ISBN
  • 2002, Ineko Kondō; Fumi Takano; Mary E Althaus; et. al., Shogakukan Progressive Japanese-English Dictionary, Third Edition, Tokyo: Shōgakukan, →ISBN.

Korean

Hanja in this term
質問

Noun

質問 • (jilmun) (hangeul 질문)

  1. hanja form? of 질문 (“question”)

Vietnamese

chữ Hán Nôm in this term
質問

Verb

質問

  1. chữ Hán form of chất vấn (“to question”).
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