janına jetgende

/dʒanɯna dʒetɡende/

Literal translation

when it reaches one's soul

At the moment when a person's own life is under threat; when it becomes a matter of survival.

Soldatla arığan edile, aç da, sap da bolğandıla. Alay, janŋa jetgende, anı juqğa da sanamay baradıla.The soldiers were tired, and they were hungry and parched too. But when their lives were at stake, they march on counting all that for nothing.

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