How to say "She is the girl I said I like."?


I have some questions about relative clauses. How can I express "She is the
girl I said (to you) I like"?

This is my attempt

> 僕はこの女子が好きなんですよ
>
> I like this girl.

> 彼女は僕が好きな女子なんですよ
>
> She is the girl I like.

> 彼女は僕が[...]女子なんですよ
>
> She is the girl whom I said I like.

I don't know how to fill the blank here. I thought something like

> 彼女は僕が好きだと言った女子なんですよ

It makes me confused because it can mean "She is the girl whom I said to her I
like her." Am I understanding「僕が好きだと言った女子」correctly?

Another question, if I turn this clause「僕が好きだと言った女子」from the sentence above
into a full sentence like this「女子は僕が好きだと言った」. Does this sentence mean "She
said she likes me"? I think this meaning is completely different from the
original clause.




彼女は僕が好きだと言った女子だ is indeed an ambiguous sentence. It could mean what you wanted
to mean, but it tends to mean "She is a girl who said she liked me."

An unambiguous version would be:

> 彼女がこの間言った僕の好きな女の子だ。  
>  She is the girl I said (to you the other day) I like.

  * You need exhaustive-listing が, not は. (You want to say " _She_ is **the** girl", not "She is **a** girl", right?)
  * 僕 **が** 好きな女の子 is ambiguous but 僕 **の** 好きな女の子 is not. See [this answer](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/a/52603/5010) and [this](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/a/30172/5010).
  * この間言った ("I said the other day") is a relative clause that modifies 僕の好きな女の子 as a whole. この間 is there because it can specify the subject of 言った without saying 僕 twice. It's not wrong to say 彼女が僕が言った僕の好きな女の子だ, but it's slightly awkward to me.

(Off topic, but you should not use 女子 like that. See [this
answer](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/a/57676/5010).)




彼女は僕が好きだと言った女子だ is indeed an ambiguous sentence. It could mean what you wanted
to mean, but it tends to mean "She is a girl who said she liked me."

An unambiguous version would be:

> 彼女がこの間言った僕の好きな女の子だ。  
>  She is the girl I said (to you the other day) I like.

  * You need exhaustive-listing が, not は. (You want to say " _She_ is **the** girl", not "She is **a** girl", right?)
  * 僕 **が** 好きな女の子 is ambiguous but 僕 **の** 好きな女の子 is not. See [this answer](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/a/52603/5010) and [this](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/a/30172/5010).
  * この間言った ("I said the other day") is a relative clause that modifies 僕の好きな女の子 as a whole. この間 is there because it can specify the subject of 言った without saying 僕 twice. It's not wrong to say 彼女が僕が言った僕の好きな女の子だ, but it's slightly awkward to me.

(Off topic, but you should not use 女子 like that. See [this
answer](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/a/57676/5010).)

