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)ɛstʃəˈnɛə/, /ˌk(w)ɛstjəˈnɛə/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• (US) IPA^(key): /ˌkwɛs.t͡ʃəˈnɛɹ/

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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: cuestionariu m, encuesta f
• Belarusian: анке́та f (ankjéta), апыта́льнік m (apytálʹnik)
• Breton: roll-goulenn m
• 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: govynnek m
• Corsican: quistionariu m
• Czech: dotazník (cs) m
• Danish: spørgeskema (da) n
• Dutch: questionnaire (nl), vragenlijst (nl) f
• Emilian: please add this translation if you can
• Esperanto: demandaro
• Estonian: küsimusieht, ankeet
• 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: анкета (anketa), сауалнама (kk) (saualnama)
• Khmer: បញ្ជីសំនួរ (bɑɑñciisɑmnuə)
• Korean: 설문지 (ko) (seolmunji), 앙케트 (angketeu)
• Kyrgyz: please add this translation if you can
• Lao: ແບບສອບຖາມ (bǣp sǭp thām)
• Latvian: anketa f, aptauja f
• Ligurian: questionâio m
• Lithuanian: anketa f
• Lombard: questionà m
• Luxembourgish: Froebou m, Questionnaire m
• Macedonian: анкета f (anketa), прашалник m (prašalnik)
• Malay: daftar (ms) pertanyaan (ms), soal selidik
• 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: questionari (oc) m
• Odia: please add this translation if you can
• Persian: پرسشنامه (fa) (porseš-nâme)
• 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: dodoso, orodha (sw) ya maswali (sw) ya uchunguzi (sw)
• 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 (tr) 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. (transitive) To survey using questionnaires.

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin quaestiōnārius, from quaestiōnō, from Latin quaestiō.

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