Meaning of how you say | Babel Free

Definitions

Used as a filled pause to imitate a stereotypical non-native English speaker: how do you say it? What is the expression?

nonstandard

Examples

“Wine Merchant: “What do you think⟳ of the sample, Monsieur; fifteen years in bottle, hey, hey?”—Frenchman: “How you say⟳, Sare, fifteen years in bottle; how that it possceble, when instanement that I pop out the cork, out comes one large fly⟳. […]”

““I come⟳ to thees country to make⟳ new life. Rico, he tells me I can do good here. Signor Mosko, I pay⟳ him the monies, he weel arrange⟳. Ees no good. I am—how you say⟳?—without help⟳. […]”

“I am a safe installer here to install-a da safe. So just a-point to where the guacamole money is, and I'll-a install-a the safe-a in da, how you say⟳, a-place?”

CEFR level