meant
O que será que ela quis dizer com isso.
What could she have meant by that?
Imagino o que o Tom quis dizer com aquilo.
I can imagine what Tom meant by that.
Ele quis dizer que o instrumento pode ter um furo ou algo assim.
He meant that the instrument might have a hole or something like that.
— A História Pessoal de David Copperfield (2019)