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