cuestión
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See also: cuestion
Asturian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Latin quaestiō, quaestiōnem.
Noun
[edit]cuestión f (plural cuestiones)
Galician
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Learned borrowing from Latin quaestiōnem.
Noun
[edit]cuestión f (plural cuestións)
- question
- Synonyms: interrogación, pregunta
- Antonyms: contestación, resposta
- a matter for concern; issue to be addressed
Spanish
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Latin quaestiōnem.
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /kwesˈtjon/ [kwesˈt̪jõn]
Audio (Latin America): (file) - Rhymes: -on
- Syllabification: cues‧tión
Noun
[edit]cuestión f (plural cuestiones)
- matter, question, issue
- Synonym: asunto
- Es cuestión de vida y muerte.
- It’s a matter of life and death.
- (nonstandard, anglicism) a question; a sentence that asks for information
- (Chile, colloquial) thing
Usage notes
[edit]- In the sense of "sentence that asks for information", pregunta is generally preferred. Using cuestión in this sense may be considered nonstandard or an anglicism.
Derived terms
[edit]See also
[edit]- pregunta f
Further reading
[edit]- “cuestión”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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