interrogando

Interrogando is a grammatical form used in several Romance languages, most commonly as the present participle (gerund) of the verb interrogar in Spanish and Portuguese and of interrogare in Italian. As a gerund, interrogando denotes ongoing action: someone is currently questioning or in the act of asking questions. In practice it appears in verb phrases such as está interrogando or sto interrogando, signaling that the questioning is in progress. It can also function adjectively to describe a situation involving ongoing questioning.

Etymology traces interrogando to the Latin interrogare, built from inter- “between” or “in relation to” and rogare “to ask.” The sense across languages centers on the act of asking questions or conducting questioning, often in formal or investigative settings.

Usage and contexts: the noun form interrogatorio refers to a formal session of questioning, such as a police or judicial interrogation. In this sense, interrogando describes the ongoing action of carrying out such questioning. In legal, journalistic, and literary contexts, the term appears as part of descriptions of investigators, witnesses, or suspects undergoing questioning, or as a general reference to the process of obtaining information through questioning.

Related terms include the verb forms interrogar or interrogare, their various tenses, and nouns like interrogatorio. Depending on the language, there are corresponding forms for the person being questioned (for example, the phrases referring to the interrogado or the interrogato) and for the one who questions (interrogador or interrogante in some usages). The exact terms vary by language, but the core idea remains the same: the act or process of asking questions.