► 名詞
問い [とい] meaning: question rank: 3
☆ 試験で全ての問いに答えることが出来なかった ⇨ I wasn’t able to answer all the questions in the exam
More examples:
- 彼に問いただしてもうんともすんとも言わない ⇨ I grilled him but he kept completely mum, said absolutely nothing
- 私は彼に問い質したが、彼は知らんぷりをした ⇨ I grilled him but he pretended not to know anything
- 彼女は夫に昨晩どこにいたのか問い質した ⇨ She grilled her husband about where he had been the last night
- 彼等に再三問い合わせたが何の返答も無い ⇨ I have inquired to them repeatedly but there has been no response
- 問い合わせの電話が殺到した ⇨ We were inundated with inquiry calls
- 同じ問い合わせが四件あった ⇨ There have been 4 similar inquiries
- 現代社会への問いかけ ⇨ A question for modern society
- 彼女は夫に前夜何をしていたのか問い詰めた ⇨ She grilled her husband about what he was doing last night
- 私が問い詰めると彼は口を濁した ⇨ I grilled him and he refused to answer clearly
- 私は彼に問い質したが、彼は知らぬ振りをした ⇨ I grilled him but he pretended not to know anything
- 彼は「おまえこそどう思ってるんだ」と問い返した ⇨ He asked back “what do you think?”
- 私の問いに彼は頓珍漢な答えをした ⇨ He gave me a response that doesn’t make any sense
- 私は製品の在庫状況について店に問い合わせた ⇨ I inquired the store about the stock status of the product
- 問い合わせの電話が引きも切らずにかかってきた ⇨ Inquiry calls came in with no breaks.The phone was ringing off the hook with inquires
- 民主主義の本当のあり方を世に問いかける作品 ⇨ A work that presents a question of what democracy really should be