"what do you say" meaning in English

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Head templates: {{head|en|phrase}} what do you say
  1. (idiomatic) Used to ask someone if they are willing to do something. Tags: idiomatic Synonyms: what say you Translations (used to ask someone if they are willing to do something): 你覺得怎麼樣? (Chinese Mandarin), 你觉得怎么样? (nǐ juéde zěnmeyàng?) (Chinese Mandarin), 好嗎? (Chinese Mandarin), 好吗? (hǎo ma?) (Chinese Mandarin), 你說呢? (Chinese Mandarin), 你说呢? (nǐ shuō ne?) (Chinese Mandarin), mitä sanot (Finnish), qu’en dites-vous [formal] (French), qu’en dis-tu [informal] (French), τι λες (ti les) (Greek), mit szólsz? (Hungarian), mit szólsz hozzá? (Hungarian), 어떻게 생각해? (eotteoke saenggakhae?) (Korean), 어때? (eottae?) (Korean), co ty na to? [informal] (Polish), что ска́жешь? (što skážešʹ?) (Russian), qué te parece (Spanish)
    Sense id: en-what_do_you_say-en-phrase-2sgBNv4H Disambiguation of 'used to ask someone if they are willing to do something': 67 33
  2. (idiomatic) Used to remind a child to say a polite expression. Tags: idiomatic Derived forms: what (english: as a colloquial British form of 'eh') Translations (used to remind a child to say a polite expression): 說謝謝 (Chinese Mandarin), 说谢谢 (shuō xièxie) (Chinese Mandarin), mitä sanotaan (Finnish), qu’est-ce qu’on dit (French), que se di? (Galician), wie sagt man (German), τι λέμε (ti léme) (Greek), mit mondunk ilyenkor (Hungarian), co powiesz? (Polish), co się mówi? (Polish), что на́до сказа́ть? (što nádo skazátʹ?) (Russian), ¿qué se dice? (Spanish)
    Sense id: en-what_do_you_say-en-phrase-qkop~Ima Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English phrasebook, Entries with translation boxes, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Terms with Finnish translations, Terms with French translations, Terms with Galician translations, Terms with German translations, Terms with Greek translations, Terms with Hungarian translations, Terms with Korean translations, Terms with Mandarin translations, Terms with Polish translations, Terms with Russian translations, Terms with Spanish translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 26 74 Disambiguation of English phrasebook: 28 72 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 34 66 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 28 72 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 23 77 Disambiguation of Terms with Finnish translations: 25 75 Disambiguation of Terms with French translations: 29 71 Disambiguation of Terms with Galician translations: 25 75 Disambiguation of Terms with German translations: 29 71 Disambiguation of Terms with Greek translations: 24 76 Disambiguation of Terms with Hungarian translations: 20 80 Disambiguation of Terms with Korean translations: 25 75 Disambiguation of Terms with Mandarin translations: 24 76 Disambiguation of Terms with Polish translations: 27 73 Disambiguation of Terms with Russian translations: 24 76 Disambiguation of Terms with Spanish translations: 22 78 Disambiguation of 'used to remind a child to say a polite expression': 29 71
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          "_dis1": "67 33",
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          "word": "你覺得怎麼樣?"
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          "sense": "used to ask someone if they are willing to do something",
          "word": "你觉得怎么样?"
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          "roman": "ti les",
          "sense": "used to ask someone if they are willing to do something",
          "word": "τι λες"
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          "code": "pl",
          "lang": "Polish",
          "sense": "used to ask someone if they are willing to do something",
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          "word": "co ty na to?"
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          "_dis1": "67 33",
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          "roman": "što skážešʹ?",
          "sense": "used to ask someone if they are willing to do something",
          "word": "что ска́жешь?"
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          "word": "說謝謝"
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          "roman": "shuō xièxie",
          "sense": "used to remind a child to say a polite expression",
          "word": "说谢谢"
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          "word": "mitä sanotaan"
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          "word": "qu’est-ce qu’on dit"
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          "word": "co się mówi?"
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          "roman": "što nádo skazátʹ?",
          "sense": "used to remind a child to say a polite expression",
          "word": "что на́до сказа́ть?"
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          "sense": "used to remind a child to say a polite expression",
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        "(idiomatic) Used to ask someone if they are willing to do something."
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      "word": "你覺得怎麼樣?"
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      "code": "cmn",
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      "sense": "used to ask someone if they are willing to do something",
      "word": "你觉得怎么样?"
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      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "used to ask someone if they are willing to do something",
      "word": "好嗎?"
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      "roman": "hǎo ma?",
      "sense": "used to ask someone if they are willing to do something",
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      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "used to ask someone if they are willing to do something",
      "word": "你說呢?"
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      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "nǐ shuō ne?",
      "sense": "used to ask someone if they are willing to do something",
      "word": "你说呢?"
    },
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      "lang": "Finnish",
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      "word": "mitä sanot"
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      "word": "qu’en dites-vous"
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      "sense": "used to ask someone if they are willing to do something",
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      "word": "qu’en dis-tu"
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      "lang": "Greek",
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      "sense": "used to ask someone if they are willing to do something",
      "word": "τι λες"
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      "lang": "Hungarian",
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      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
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      "word": "mit szólsz hozzá?"
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      "roman": "eotteoke saenggakhae?",
      "sense": "used to ask someone if they are willing to do something",
      "word": "어떻게 생각해?"
    },
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      "code": "ko",
      "lang": "Korean",
      "roman": "eottae?",
      "sense": "used to ask someone if they are willing to do something",
      "word": "어때?"
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      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "used to ask someone if they are willing to do something",
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      "word": "co ty na to?"
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      "code": "ru",
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      "roman": "što skážešʹ?",
      "sense": "used to ask someone if they are willing to do something",
      "word": "что ска́жешь?"
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      "sense": "used to ask someone if they are willing to do something",
      "word": "qué te parece"
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      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "used to remind a child to say a polite expression",
      "word": "說謝謝"
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      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "shuō xièxie",
      "sense": "used to remind a child to say a polite expression",
      "word": "说谢谢"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "used to remind a child to say a polite expression",
      "word": "mitä sanotaan"
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      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "used to remind a child to say a polite expression",
      "word": "qu’est-ce qu’on dit"
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      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "used to remind a child to say a polite expression",
      "word": "que se di?"
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      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "used to remind a child to say a polite expression",
      "word": "wie sagt man"
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    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "ti léme",
      "sense": "used to remind a child to say a polite expression",
      "word": "τι λέμε"
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      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "used to remind a child to say a polite expression",
      "word": "mit mondunk ilyenkor"
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      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "used to remind a child to say a polite expression",
      "word": "co powiesz?"
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    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "used to remind a child to say a polite expression",
      "word": "co się mówi?"
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      "code": "ru",
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      "roman": "što nádo skazátʹ?",
      "sense": "used to remind a child to say a polite expression",
      "word": "что на́до сказа́ть?"
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      "code": "es",
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      "sense": "used to remind a child to say a polite expression",
      "word": "¿qué se dice?"
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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-11-06 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-10-02 using wiktextract (fbeafe8 and 7f03c9b). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

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.