in question

English

Adjective

in question (comparative more in question, superlative most in question)

1. Under consideration, under discussion.

   The man in question just walked in.

   The topic in question is not something that can be easily addressed due to its sensitivity.

   The police officer told me the suspect in question was last seen on Swanston St.

   • 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter V, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:

     When this conversation was repeated in detail within the hearing of the young woman in question, and undoubtedly for his benefit, Mr. Trevor threw shame to the winds and scandalized the Misses Brewster then and there by proclaiming his father to have been a country storekeeper.

2. In doubt, under dispute.

   The whole project is now in question.

Translations

under consideration or discussion

• Catalan: en qüestió (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 考慮中的／考虑中的 (kǎolǜ zhōng de), 討論中的／讨论中的 (tǎolùn zhōng de)

• Danish: pågældende, vedkommende
• Dutch: in kwestie, onderhavig (nl)
• Finnish: kyseinen (fi)
• French: en question (fr)
• German: betreffend (de), besagt (de), fraglich (de)
• Hungarian: szóban forgó
• Irish: i gceist
• Italian: in questione
• Japanese: 問題の (ja) (mondai no)
• Portuguese: em questão
• Romanian: în cauză
• Russian: обсуждаемый (ru) (obsuždajemyj), рассматриваемый (ru) (rassmatrivajemyj)
• Serbo-Croatian: дотични m (dotični)
• Spanish: en cuestión

in doubt, under dispute

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 受到懷疑／受到怀疑 (shòudào huáiyí), 不確定／不确定 (bù quèdìng), 在爭論中／在争论中 (zài zhēnglùn zhōng)

• Finnish: kyseenalainen (fi)
• French: remis en question (fr)
• German: infrage (stehend), fraglich (de)
• Hungarian: kétséges (hu), kérdéses (hu), bizonytalan (hu)
• Russian: спо́рный (ru) (spórnyj), сомни́тельный (ru) (somnítelʹnyj)
• Serbo-Croatian: доведен у питање m (doveden u pitanje)
• Spanish: en tela de juicio