querer decir

Spanish

Verb

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?

Derived terms

• quiero decir

 

Further reading

• “querer decir”, in Diccionario de la lengua española (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy, 2023 November 28