Thread: How do you say in russian "I was Confused"

Привет. У меня есть один простой вопрос.

How do you say in Russian "I was confused"?

For example today I wanted to say to a Russian costumer that "I must ask (=Я должен спросить)" but instead I said "Я должен ответить" and when I undestood my mistake I wanted to apologize to him by saying: "I apologized, I was confused".

Please I don't want the expression: Я сделал ошибку!

My try : извините, я запутался.

Wait for a native speaker answer.

Thank you for the effort.

Originally Posted by Antonio1986

Thank you for the effort.

я перепутал слова

I mixed up the words.

запутался also means "I got confused" but it seems like a more serious state of confusion, like if you tried for a long time to think of what to say and couldn't find the words.

Thank you.
I just want to know the verb "перепутать" is used also in other cases, such as: I mixed the ingredients or I mixed the documents and now I cannot find them

No, it's used when you mix up/ confuse one thing for another. я перепутал ингредиенты means you used one ingredient instead of another (sugar instead of salt, for example). Mixing ingredients in a recipe would be смешивать/смешать.

or even "смешивать/валить в [одну] кучу"

The Dictionary says though, that it is translated as "to lump" (never seen this word before!), not "I was confused"