abgefragt

Abgefragt is the past participle of the German verb abfragen. It can function as a participial adjective in compound tenses or as a stand-alone adjective meaning “queried,” “interrogated,” or “tested,” depending on the context. The base verb abfragen consists of the prefix ab- (away, off) and fragen (to ask), and it carries the sense of requesting information or querying a source.

In everyday language, abgefragt describes someone who has been questioned or tested, for example in a classroom quiz or a police interview: der Verdächtige wurde abgefragt. In technical and data-processing contexts, abfragen means to query or poll a data source (such as a database, an API, or a service) to obtain information. In this usage, abgefragt refers to data that has been retrieved through such a query or to the act of performing the query itself. For example, eine abgefragte Datenmenge describes data retrieved by a query.

The related noun Abfrage denotes the query or inquiry itself, as in SQL-Abfrage for a database query. In IT, abgefragt data are contrasted with other data-access verbs such as abrufen (retrieve) or abrufbar (retrievable), though the terms are sometimes used interchangeably in common speech.

Overall, abgefragt is a versatile term in German, used across everyday language and technical domains to indicate that information has been requested, obtained, or that a person has been subjected to questioning.