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English
Alternative forms
Phrase
I told you so
- Used to remind someone that they were already warned by the speaker/writer that a certain event would happen.
1918 September–November, Edgar Rice Burroughs, “The Land That Time Forgot”, in The Blue Book Magazine, Chicago, Ill.: Story-press Corp., →OCLC; republished as chapter IV, in Hugo Gernsback, editor, Amazing Stories, (please specify |part=I, II, or III), New York, N.Y.: Experimenter Publishing, 1927, →OCLC:[…] Of this he took a taste, and straightening up, looked into my eyes with an expression of elation—as much as to say "I told you so!"
2023 April 1, Jonathan Weisman, “Trump and Fox News, Twin Titans of Politics, Hit With Back-to-Back Rebukes”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:For the left, the seismic week delivered an “I told you so” years in the making.
Usage notes
This phrase is often said as "I hate to say I told you so", as a form of paralipsis.
Translations
told you so!
- Arabic: قُلْتُ لَكَ ذٰلِكَ m (qultu laka ḏālika), قُلْتُ لَكِ ذٰلِكَ f (qultu laki ḏālika)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 我說什麼來著／我说什么来著 (wǒ shuō shénme láizhe), 我说什么来着 (zh) (wǒ shuō shénme láizhe)
- Danish: hvad sagde jeg
- Dutch: da's wat ik u gezegd heb he!, wat heb ik je gezegd?
- Finnish: mitä minä sanoin, minähän sanoin
- French: je te l’avais bien dit
- German: ich hab's gesagt
- Hungarian: nem megmondtam?
- Indonesian: apa kataku, nah (id)
- Italian: te l'avevo detto io
- Japanese: 言わんこっちゃない (iwan kotchanai), (male) 言っただろ (itta daro), (female) 言ったでしょ (itta desho)
- Low German:
- German Low German: ik heff't seggt, wat heff ik di seggt?
- Ojibwe: gigii-wiindamoon
- Polish: a nie mówiłem?
- Portuguese: eu te avisei, eu avisei
- Russian: я же тебе́ говори́л m (ja že tebé govoríl) (informal, said by male), я же тебе́ говори́ла f (ja že tebé govoríla) (informal, said by female)
- Spanish: ya te lo dije
- Swedish: vad var det jag sa
- Tagalog: sabi ko sa 'yo eh
- Turkish: ben demiştim, ha (tr)
- Vietnamese: tôi đã nói như thế rồi mà
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