cuestión

Borrowed from Latin quaestiō, quaestiōnem.

• IPA^(key): /kwesˈtjon/ [kwes̪ˈt̪jõŋ]
• Rhymes: -on
• Syllabification: cues‧tión

cuestión f (plural cuestiones)

1. matter, question

   Synonym: asuntu

Learned borrowing from Latin quaestiōnem.

cuestión f (plural cuestións)

1. question

   Synonyms: interrogación, pregunta

   Antonyms: contestación, resposta

2. a matter for concern; issue to be addressed

• custión (Chile, eye dialect)

Borrowed from Latin quaestiōnem.

• IPA^(key): /kwesˈtjon/ [kwesˈt̪jõn]

• Audio (Latin America):

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• Rhymes: -on
• Syllabification: cues‧tión

cuestión f (plural cuestiones)

1. matter, question, issue

   Synonym: asunto

   Es cuestión de vida y muerte.

   It’s a matter of life and death.

2. (nonstandard, anglicism) a question; a sentence that asks for information
3. (Chile, colloquial) thing

• 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.

• pregunta f

• “cuestión”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024