interroger
French, verb/ɛ̃.tɛ.ʁɔ.ʒe/
interroger is spelled I-N-T-E-R-R-O-G-E-R (10 letters) and appears 12 times per million words in written French, the 5,966th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Interroger is a French verb meaning “to question, interrogate” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Poser des questions à quelqu’un soit pour s’informer de quelque chose, soit pour s’assurer que la personne…”.
What does interroger mean in English?
verb
- 1
to question, interrogate
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Poser des questions à quelqu’un soit pour s’informer de quelque chose, soit pour s’assurer que la personne questionnée possède ou a acquis une certaine connaissance. 2. Consulter, examiner attentivement, la nature, les faits, sa conscience, l’histoire …. 3. Pousser à la réflexion. 4. (au sens réfléchi) S’examiner ; se consulter.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of interroger
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- interrogeant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- interrogé participle past
- interroge first-person indicative present
- interroges indicative present second-person
- interrogeons first-person indicative plural
- interrogez indicative plural present
- interrogent indicative plural present
- interrogeais first-person imperfect indicative
- interrogeait imperfect indicative singular
- interrogions first-person imperfect indicative
- interrogiez imperfect indicative plural
- interrogeaient imperfect indicative plural
- interrogeai first-person historic indicative
- interrogeas historic indicative past
- interrogea historic indicative past
- interrogeâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce interroger?
- /ɛ̃.tɛ.ʁɔ.ʒe/
- /ɛ̃.te.ʁɔ.ʒe/
- \ɛ̃.te.ʁɔ.ʒe\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to interroger
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is interroger in French?
interroger appears 12 times per million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).