questionnaire

questionnaire

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French questionnaire, from Late Latin quaestionarius, from quaestio (English question) + -arius, from quaerō (“I question”) (English query).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˌk(w)estʃəˈnɛə/, /ˌk(w)estjəˈnɛə/

• Audio (Southern England)

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• (US) IPA^(key): /ˌkwɛs.t͡ʃəˈnɛɹ/

Noun

questionnaire (plural questionnaires)

1. A form containing a list of questions; a means of gathering information for a survey

   carry out a questionnaire

   fill out a questionnaire

   • 1946 January and February, “Post-War Passenger Coaches”, in Railway Magazine, page 2:

     In considering their post-war designs some of the British and American railways have adopted the course of taking a cross section of the requirements of the travelling public by distributing questionnaires dealing with details of seating, lighting, catering, and other features making for comfortable journeys.

Related terms

• question

Translations

form containing a list of questions

Albanian: anketë (sq) f, pyetësor (sq) m Arabic: اِسْتِبَانَة‎ f (istibāna) Aragonese: please add this translation if you can Asturian: please add this translation if you can Belarusian: анке́та f (ankjéta), апыта́льнік m (apytálʹnik) Breton: please add this translation if you can Bulgarian: въпро́сник (bg) m (vǎprósnik) Burmese: please add this translation if you can Catalan: qüestionari (ca) m Cherokee: ᏗᏛᏛᎮᎸᎠᏍᎩ (didvdvhelvasgi) Chinese: Mandarin: 問卷／问卷 (zh) (wènjuàn), 調查表／调查表 (zh) (diàochábiǎo) Cornish: please add this translation if you can Corsican: please add this translation if you can Czech: dotazník (cs) m Danish: spørgeskema (da) n Dutch: questionnaire (nl), vragenlijst (nl) f Emilian: please add this translation if you can Estonian: please add this translation if you can Finnish: kyselylomake, kyselykaavake, kysely (fi) French: questionnaire (fr) m, enquête (fr) f Friulian: cuistionari m Galician: please add this translation if you can Georgian: კითხვარი (ḳitxvari), ანკეტა (anḳeṭa) German: Fragebogen (de) m Greek: ερωτηματολόγιο (el) n (erotimatológio) Hindi: प्रश्नावली f (praśnāvlī) Hungarian: kérdőív (hu) Ido: questionaro (io) Indonesian: angket (id), kuesioner (id) Irish: ceistiúchán m Italian: questionario (it) m Japanese: アンケート (ja) (ankēto) Kazakh: please add this translation if you can Khmer: បញ្ជីសំនួរ (bɑɑñciisɑmnuə) Korean: 설문지 (ko) (seolmunji), 앙케트 (angketeu) Kyrgyz: please add this translation if you can Lao: ແບບສອບຖາມ (bǣp sǭp thām) Latvian: please add this translation if you can Ligurian: questionâio m Lithuanian: please add this translation if you can Lombard: please add this translation if you can Luxembourgish: Froebou m, Questionnaire m Macedonian: анкета f (anketa), прашалник m (prašalnik) Malay: please add this translation if you can Manx: please add this translation if you can Maori: rārangi uiui, rārangi pātai Mirandese: please add this translation if you can Neapolitan: please add this translation if you can Norman: tchestionnaithe m Norwegian: Bokmål: spørreskjema n Nynorsk: spørjeskjema n Occitan: please add this translation if you can Oriya: please add this translation if you can Persian: پرسشنامه‎ (fa) (porseš-name) Piedmontese: please add this translation if you can Polish: ankieta (pl) f, kwestionariusz (pl) m Portuguese: questionário (pt) m Romagnol: please add this translation if you can Russian: анке́та (ru) f (ankéta), опро́сник (ru) m (oprósnik) Scottish Gaelic: ceisteachan m Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: анкета f, анкетни листић m, упитник m Roman: anketa (sh) f, anketni listić m, upitnik (sh) m Sicilian: please add this translation if you can Slovak: dotazník (sk) m Slovene: vprašalnik m Spanish: cuestionario (es) m, encuesta (es) f Swahili: please add this translation if you can Swedish: enkät (sv) c Tagalog: talatanungan Tajik: пурсишнома (pursišnoma) Thai: แบบสอบถาม (th) (bɛ̀ɛp-sɔ̀ɔp-tǎam) Tibetan: please add this translation if you can Turkish: anket formu Turkmen: please add this translation if you can Ukrainian: анке́та (uk) f (ankéta), запита́льник m (zapytálʹnyk) Uyghur: please add this translation if you can Uzbek: please add this translation if you can Vietnamese: bản câu hỏi, bảng câu hỏi Volapük: säkablog Walloon: please add this translation if you can Welsh: holiadur m or f Yakut: please add this translation if you can Yiddish: אַנקעטע‎ f (ankete)

Verb

questionnaire (third-person singular simple present questionnaires, present participle questionnairing, simple past and past participle questionnaired)

1. to survey using questionnaires

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French

Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin quaestionarius, from quaestiono, from Latin quaestio.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɛs.tjɔ.nɛʁ/

• Audio

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Noun

questionnaire m (plural questionnaires)

1. questionnaire

Related terms

• question

Further reading

• “questionnaire”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

• questionnerai