"what was that" meaning in All languages combined

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Phrase [English]

Head templates: {{head|en|phrase|head=what was that?}} what was that?
  1. (colloquial) What did you just say? Synonym of say again Tags: colloquial Translations (What did you just say): 你剛才說什麼? (Chinese Mandarin), 你刚才说什么? (nǐ gāngcái shuō shénme?) (Chinese Mandarin), mitä sanoit (Finnish), de quoi (French), que dixeches? (Galician), mi? (english: on the verge of being rude) (Hungarian), micsoda? (Hungarian), mit mondasz? (note: only slightly informal) (Hungarian), šta si rekao/la? (Serbo-Croatian), efendim? (Turkish)
    Sense id: en-what_was_that-en-phrase-0Jg5I6d9 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with language name categories using raw markup, English phrasebook, English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 81 19 Disambiguation of English entries with language name categories using raw markup: 89 11 Disambiguation of English phrasebook: 88 12 Disambiguation of English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys: 89 11 Disambiguation of 'What did you just say': 90 10
  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see what, was, that.
    Sense id: en-what_was_that-en-phrase-5SqfmjXv
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: what's that

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          "word": "你刚才说什么?"
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      "_dis1": "53 47",
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      "word": "what's that"
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      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "What did you just say",
      "word": "你剛才說什麼?"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "nǐ gāngcái shuō shénme?",
      "sense": "What did you just say",
      "word": "你刚才说什么?"
    },
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      "word": "mitä sanoit"
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      "word": "que dixeches?"
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      "word": "mit mondasz?"
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      "sense": "What did you just say",
      "word": "šta si rekao/la?"
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      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "What did you just say",
      "word": "efendim?"
    }
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