"I told you so" meaning in All languages combined

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Phrase [English]

Head templates: {{head|en|phrase}} I told you so
  1. Used to remind someone that they were already warned by the speaker/writer that a certain event would happen. Synonyms: told you so, told you, I told you, What did I tell you Translations (told you so!): قُلْتُ لَكَ ذٰلِكَ (qultu laka ḏālika) [masculine] (Arabic), قُلْتُ لَكِ ذٰلِكَ (qultu laki ḏālika) [feminine] (Arabic), 我說什麼來著 /我说什么来着 (wǒ shuō shénme láizhe) (Chinese Mandarin), 我说什么来着 (wǒ shuō shénme láizhe) (Chinese Mandarin), hvad sagde jeg (Danish), da's wat ik u gezegd heb he! (Dutch), wat heb ik je gezegd? (Dutch), mitä minä sanoin (Finnish), minähän sanoin (Finnish), je te l’avais bien dit (French), ich hab's gesagt (German), nem megmondtam? (Hungarian), apa kataku (Indonesian), nah (Indonesian), te l'avevo detto io (Italian), 言わんこっちゃない (iwan kotchanai) (Japanese), 言っただろ (itta daro) [masculine] (Japanese), 言ったでしょ (itta desho) [feminine] (Japanese), kanak dedan en sik-a (Kankanaey), ik heff't seggt [German-Low-German] (Low German), wat heff ik di seggt? [German-Low-German] (Low German), gigii-wiindamoon (Ojibwe), a nie mówiłem? (Polish), eu te avisei (Portuguese), eu avisei (Portuguese), я же тебе́ говори́л (ja že tebé govoríl) (english: said by male) [informal, masculine] (Russian), я же тебе́ говори́ла (ja že tebé govoríla) (english: said by female) [feminine, informal] (Russian), ya te lo dije (Spanish), vad var det jag sa (Swedish), sabi ko sa 'yo eh (Tagalog), ben demiştim (Turkish), ha (Turkish), tôi đã nói như thế rồi mà (Vietnamese), thấy chưa? (Vietnamese)

Alternative forms

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If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.