que voulez-vous
French, interjection/kə vu.le.vu/
que voulez-vous is a French interjection meaning “what can I say” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
What does que voulez-vous mean in English?
interjection
- 1
informalwhat can I say
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
phrase: 1. S’intercale en incise pour signifier que l’on ne peut rien y faire, exprimant un certain fatalisme.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of que voulez-vous
- que veux-tu alternative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce que voulez-vous?
- /kə vu.le.vu/
- \kə vu.le.vu\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.