How do you say this in Spanish?

No sé por qué lo traducen al participio... :-/

bueno, lo que quieres decir, en español se dice "Quise decir el próximo lunes."

Así de simple

Saludos

Thanks for the compliment.

The correct answer is -

Yo quise decir el proximo lunes. Note that "I meant to say next Monday" and "I meant next Monday" are the same thought. To "mean" uses the phrase "want to say." It's an idiom (a modismo) in spanish. Thus, to say "I mean....:" you say "yo quiero decir...."

The confusion going on has to do with which past tense to use to express "meant." This is going to be the past tense of querer (to want) so that you're saying "I wanted to say next Monday."

The preterite (quise) is used in this case because it's a one time thing and not a pattern of behavior. Using the imperfect would mean that you used to mean next Monday (and made that mistake over and over) in the past but you no longer mean next Monday. Doesn't make sense, does it?

This issue of when to use the imperfect causes much confusion. Even amoung native speakers. So make sure you know the theory and correct useage of the imperfect. Do not attempt to learn this tense by listening.

Rich

Wow. Why so many different answers? I might start posting my spanish questions on about.com. LOL.

Even if it takes a couple days to get an answer at least i will have more assurance of whats correct.

This yahoo and questions answers seems more like a guessing game instead of questions and answers.

Mexican guys. Where are you? Can you answer this one? Litehaus22, which is correct? He speaks good spanish so maybe he can clear things up for us.

Im going to guess at this one.

Im going to say it means

Yo quise decir el proximo lunes

Lo que quise decir es el proximo Lunes.

I'm Uruguayan and the accents and pronunciation is one-of-a-kind among them .Argentinian and Uruguayan Spanish are very an identical however Argentinian tone is one-of-a-kind and a few one-of-a-kind grammar ,I uncover it okay to talk to a Mexican however to anyone from Spain I haven't any inspiration methods to fully grasp what they are saying in any respect

Quise decir, “el próximo lunes”.

Queria decir el proximo lunes.

I think.

I meant to say next Monday

yo queria decir el proximo lunes

me rifiero a decir proximo lunes