English
English phrasebook
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Pronunciation
Phrase
what do you mean?
- A request for clarification of an anterior statement or question.
- An expression of surprise, annoyance, or disagreement to an anterior statement.
What do you mean, it was all my fault?
Translations
what do you mean? (request for clarification)
- Arabic: please add this translation if you can
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 你這是什麼意思？ / 你这是什么意思？ (nǐ zhè shì shénme yìsi)
- Finnish: mitä tarkoitat?
- French: comment ça ? (fr)
- Galician: que quere dicir?
- German: was meinst du?
- Hebrew: מה זה אומר? (ma ze omér?), מה זאת אומרת? (ma zot oméret), מה אתה אומר? (ma atá omér?), מה את אומרת? (ma at oméret?)
- Hungarian: (informal) hogy érted? (hu), mire gondolsz?, (formal) hogy érti?, mire gondol?
- Italian: cioè? (it)
- Jamaican Creole: weh yuh a try seh?
- Japanese: どういうことですか？ (dō iu koto desu ka?)
- Persian: منظورت چیست؟ (manzuret čist?)
- Polish: co masz na myśli, o co chodzi (informal)
- Portuguese: como assim? (pt)
- Russian: (formal) что Вы имеете в виду? (što Vy imejete v vidu?), (familiar) что ты имеешь в виду? (što ty imeješʹ v vidu?), (informal) в смысле (ru) (v smysle)
- Spanish: ¿a qué te refieres?, ¿qué quieres decir?, ¿a qué se refiere?, ¿qué quiere decir?
- Swedish: vad menar du?
- Ukrainian: please add this translation if you can
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expression of surprise, annoyance, or disagreement to an anterior statement