querer dicir

== Galician == === Etymology === Literally, “to want to say”. Compare many similar constructions in Romance languages such as Spanish querer decir, Portuguese querer dizer, French vouloir dire, Italian volere dire, Catalan voler dir, as well as Dutch willen zeggen. === Verb === querer dicir (first-person singular present quero dicir, first-person singular preterite quixen dicir, past participle querido dicir) (personal) to mean O que quero dicir é... ― What I mean is... to mean; to signify Synonym: significa Este símbolo quere dicir perigo ― This symbol means danger ==== Conjugation ==== === References === Seoane, Ernesto Xosé González; Granja, María Álvarez de la; Agrelo, Ana Isabel Boullón (2006–2022), “querer dizer”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval [Dictionary of dictionaries of Medieval Galician] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega Barreiro, Xavier Varela; Guinovart, Xavier Gómez (2006–2018), “querer dicir”, in Corpus Xelmírez: corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval [Corpus Xelmírez: linguistic corpus of Medieval Galicia] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “querer dicir”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “querer dicir”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega