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We use interrogative pronouns to ask questions. The interrogative pronoun represents the thing that we don't know (what we are asking the question about). There are four main interrogative pronouns: who, whom, what, which. Notice that the possessive pronoun whose can also be an interrogative pronoun (an interrogative possessive pronoun).
up vote 5 down vote. Their roots are all in the Latin word, rogÄre, to ask. They all have to do with asking. Prerogative, meaning to have a right, is from Latin praerogÄtÄ«vus, meaning asked first, to ask before anyone else.(prae-, pre- + rogÄre, to ask.). Derogative is from Latin dÄrogÄre, meaning to repeal some part of a law, modify it.. Prerogative, derogative, and interrogative all seem to have the root rogative (or perhaps it's not a root at all) and I'm wondering what it means. I was having trouble seeing a connection between the three words. For assistance, here are their dictionary definitions: