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was ich sagen wollte

what I wanted to say

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phrase Rare #27,024
what I wanted to say Used to refer to the message or point the speaker intended to express. The related forms “was ich sagen will” and “was ich sagen wollte” mean “what I want to say” and “what I wanted to say.”
GE: Jetzt weiß ich wieder, was ich sagen wollte.
EN: Now I remember what I wanted to say.

Woher wusstest du, was ich sagen wollte?

How did you know what I wanted to say?

— The Age of Shadows (2016)

Ich sagte, was ich sagen wollte.

I said what I wanted to say.

Ich vergesse alles, was ich sagen wollte.

I am forgetting everything I wanted to say.

— Schmetterling und Taucherglocke (2007)

Was ich sagen wollte, ist, dass Sie das nicht tun sollten.

What I wanted to say is that you shouldn’t do that.

Ich habe vergessen, was ich sagen wollte.

I forgot what I wanted to say.