Spanish

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Verb

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querer decir (first-person singular present quiero decir, first-person singular preterite quise decir, past participle querido decir)

  1. (idiomatic) to mean, to get at, to be getting at (in the sense of the want to convey something)
    ¿Qué quieres decir?
    What do you mean?
    (literally, “What do you want to say?”)
    ¿Entiendes lo que quiero decir?
    Do you see what I'm getting at?

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