Is "...つもりだったでしょうか" an OK translation for "Did you mean to ...?"


A person planning a seminar wrote the date and day of the week, but the day of
the week was incorrect. So I wanted to send a message asking "Did you mean to
write ...?", but I'm struggling to wrangle a natural-sounding translation.

The closest I can come up with is 「(土)を書くつもりだったでしょうか。」but for some reason
something about it doesn't sit right with me. Could someone with a better
"natural Japanese" filter give a better idea?




I suppose _do you mean to_ would require some modifications depending on what
you are asking.

Speaking backward, つもりですか/つもりでしたか normally sounds like _do you plan to/did you
plan to...?_. That is, it sounds asking about the explicit plan, not implicit
intentions. So if a sentence can be rewritten as _do you plan/try to...?_ ,
つもりですか probably can be used.

As for the particular example, suppose (this year) there is written
3月19日（日）（＝actually 土曜日） we normally say

  1. 日付と曜日が食い違っていますが、どちらが正しいでしょうか？

  2. 19日は土曜日ですか、曜日のほうが間違っているということでよろしいでしょうか？

  3. 19日は土曜日ですが、20日の間違いということでよろしいでしょうか？

In 1. you generally ask about the inconsistency; in 2, you assume the day of
the week is wrong; in 3, you assume the date is wrong.

Slightly more generally, I guess you need to rephrase the English to something
like "Currently X (which puzzles me), did you mean to write Y?", and translate
it as "Xとなっていますが、Yということでよろしいでしょうか" (with possibly many modifications depending
on the context).




I suppose _do you mean to_ would require some modifications depending on what
you are asking.

Speaking backward, つもりですか/つもりでしたか normally sounds like _do you plan to/did you
plan to...?_. That is, it sounds asking about the explicit plan, not implicit
intentions. So if a sentence can be rewritten as _do you plan/try to...?_ ,
つもりですか probably can be used.

As for the particular example, suppose (this year) there is written
3月19日（日）（＝actually 土曜日） we normally say

  1. 日付と曜日が食い違っていますが、どちらが正しいでしょうか？

  2. 19日は土曜日ですか、曜日のほうが間違っているということでよろしいでしょうか？

  3. 19日は土曜日ですが、20日の間違いということでよろしいでしょうか？

In 1. you generally ask about the inconsistency; in 2, you assume the day of
the week is wrong; in 3, you assume the date is wrong.

Slightly more generally, I guess you need to rephrase the English to something
like "Currently X (which puzzles me), did you mean to write Y?", and translate
it as "Xとなっていますが、Yということでよろしいでしょうか" (with possibly many modifications depending
on the context).

