How is the phrase je veux dire translated from French to English

English translation
I mean
phrase

S'emploie pour expliquer ou corriger ce que l'on vient de dire.

Used to explain or correct what you have just said.

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  • Je veux dire, ce n'était pas vraiment sa faute. — I mean, it was not really his fault.

  • Nous partons à six heures, je veux dire à sept. — We leave at six, I mean at seven.

  • Il dit « je veux dire » avant presque chaque phrase. — He says "I mean" before almost every sentence.

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