noun, feminine/kɛs.tjɔ̃/plural: questions
question (interrogation by torture); question (sentence, phrase or word which asks for information, reply or response); issue, matter, topic, problem
“Je voudrais vous poser une question.” — I would like to ask you a question.
Inherited from Middle French and Old French question (12th c.), borrowed from Latin quaestiō. At first a learned word, therefore retaining preconsonantal -s- (compare related quête).