He knows how to interrogate people.
Source: tatoeba (1752054)
Interrogate
//ɪnˈtɛɹ.ə.ɡeɪt//
Synonyms for "interrogate" (55 found)
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Closest matches (11)
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Related words (27)
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7 entriesderived
6 entrieshas context
2 entriesmanner of
2 entriesrelated to
12 entriesTranslations
107 translations across 54 languages.
Arabic
3 entries- اِسْتَجْوَبَ verb (to question or quiz)
- اِسْتَنْطَقَ verb (to question or quiz)
- حَقَّقَ مَعَ verb (to question or quiz)
Armenian
1 entries- հարցաքննել verb (to question or quiz)
Azerbaijani
1 entries- dindirmək verb (to question or quiz)
Belarusian
2 entries- дапы́тваць verb (to question or quiz)
- дапыта́ць verb (to question or quiz)
Bulgarian
4 entries- запи́там verb (to question or quiz)
- запи́твам verb (to question or quiz)
- разпи́там verb (to question or quiz)
- разпи́твам verb (to question or quiz)
Catalan
1 entries- interrogar verb (to question or quiz)
Chinese Mandarin
2 entries- 審問 /审问 verb (to question or quiz)
- 審訊 /审讯 verb (to question or quiz)
Czech
1 entries- vyslýchat verb (to question or quiz)
Danish
2 entries- afhøre verb (to question or quiz)
- forhøre verb (to question or quiz)
Dutch
3 entries- interrogeren verb (to question or quiz)
- ondervragen verb (to question or quiz)
- verhoren verb (to question or quiz)
Esperanto
1 entries- pridemandi verb (to question or quiz)
Estonian
1 entries- üle kuulama verb (to question or quiz)
Finnish
1 entries- kuulustella verb (to question or quiz)
French
1 entries- interroger verb (to question or quiz)
Georgian
1 entries- გამოკითხავს verb (to question or quiz)
German
2 entries- verhören verb (to question or quiz)
- vernehmen verb (to question or quiz)
Greek
1 entries- ανακρίνω verb (to question or quiz)
Hindi
2 entries- पूछताछ करना verb (to question or quiz)
- प्रश्न करना verb (to question or quiz)
Hungarian
4 entries- faggat verb (to question or quiz)
- kifaggat verb (to question or quiz)
- kikérdez verb (to question or quiz)
- vallat verb (to question or quiz)
Ingrian
1 entries- kuulussella verb (to question or quiz)
Irish
1 entries- ceistigh verb (to question or quiz)
Italian
1 entries- interrogare verb (to question or quiz)
Japanese
2 entries- 尋問する verb (to question or quiz)
- 訊く verb (to question or quiz)
Kazakh
2 entries- жауап алу verb (to question or quiz)
- тергеу verb (to question or quiz)
Khmer
4 entries- ជជីក verb (to question or quiz)
- បុច្ឆា verb (to question or quiz)
- ផ្ចុច verb (to question or quiz)
- សង្កិន verb (to question or quiz)
Korean
1 entries- 심문하다 verb (to question or quiz)
Kyrgyz
1 entries- суракка алуу verb (to question or quiz)
Latin
2 entries- percontor verb (to question or quiz)
- sciscitor verb (to question or quiz)
Latvian
1 entries- nopratināt verb (to question or quiz)
Lithuanian
1 entries- apklausinėti verb (to question or quiz)
Macedonian
4 entries- испита verb (to question or quiz)
- испитува verb (to question or quiz)
- сослуша verb (to question or quiz)
- сослушува verb (to question or quiz)
Mongolian
1 entries- байцаах verb (to question or quiz)
Māori
1 entries- uiui verb (to question or quiz)
Norwegian Bokmål
2 entries- avhøra verb (to question or quiz)
- forhøre verb (to question or quiz)
Ottoman Turkish
1 entries- صورمق verb (to question or quiz)
Persian
3 entries- استنطاق کردن verb (to question or quiz)
- بازجویی کردن verb (to question or quiz)
- بازپرسی کردن verb (to question or quiz)
Polish
2 entries- przesłuchać verb (to question or quiz)
- przesłuchiwać verb (to question or quiz)
Portuguese
2 entries- interrogar verb (to question or quiz)
- questionar verb (to question or quiz)
Romanian
1 entries- a interoga verb (to question or quiz)
Russian
4 entries- допра́шивать verb (to question or quiz)
- допроси́ть verb (to question or quiz)
- спра́шивать verb (to question or quiz)
- спроси́ть verb (to question or quiz)
Sanskrit
1 entries- पृच्छति verb (to question or quiz)
Serbo-Croatian
4 entries- ispitívati verb (to question or quiz)
- ispítati verb (to question or quiz)
- preslušávati verb (to question or quiz)
- prèslušati verb (to question or quiz)
Slovak
1 entries- vypočúvať verb (to question or quiz)
Slovene
4 entries- izprašati verb (to question or quiz)
- izpraševati verb (to question or quiz)
- zaslišati verb (to question or quiz)
- zasliševati verb (to question or quiz)
Spanish
1 entries- interrogar verb (to question or quiz)
Swedish
1 entries- förhöra verb (to question or quiz)
Tajik
3 entries- бозпурсӣ кардан verb (to question or quiz)
- истинтоқ кардан verb (to question or quiz)
- тергав кардан verb (to question or quiz)
Thai
4 entries- ซักถาม verb (to question or quiz)
- สอบถาม verb (to question or quiz)
- สอบปากคำ verb (to question or quiz)
- ไถ่ verb (to question or quiz)
Turkish
4 entries- isticvap etmek verb (to question or quiz)
- istinkak etmek verb (to question or quiz)
- sorgulamak verb (to question or quiz)
- sorguya çekmek verb (to question or quiz)
Turkmen
1 entries- sorag etmek verb (to question or quiz)
Ukrainian
2 entries- допи́тувати verb (to question or quiz)
- допита́ти verb (to question or quiz)
Uyghur
1 entries- سوراق قىلماق verb (to question or quiz)
Uzbek
1 entries- soʻroq qilmoq verb (to question or quiz)
Vietnamese
2 entries- hỏi cung verb (to question or quiz)
- thẩm vấn verb (to question or quiz)
Sample sentences
13 total sentences available.
Their job is to interrogate suspects.
Source: tatoeba (1771350)
The police want to interrogate Tom.
Source: tatoeba (2016942)
Interrogate!
Source: tatoeba (6608390)
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