what do you mean

English

English phrasebook

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Pronunciation

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Phrase

what do you mean?

1. A request for clarification of an anterior statement or question.
2. 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

expression of surprise, annoyance, or disagreement to an anterior statement

• French: comment ça ? (fr)
• Finnish: miten niin
• Portuguese: como assim? (pt)