kölü çögerge

/køly tʃøɡerɡe/

Literal translation

for one's heart to sink

Intended meaning

To grow quiet and sorrowful, to lose one's cheer; in the causative variant, to make someone downcast.
  • Harunnu kölü çögedi, közlerin enişge boşlaydı. – Saw bol, Aminat. Sen bir adamğa da igilik bolmasa, amanlıq etmegeniŋe iynanama, – dedi.Harun's spirits sink and he drops his eyes. "Thank you, Aminat. Even if you do no good to anybody, I trust you do no harm," he said.
  • Atasını mudahlığı İslamnı da kölün çökdürgendi.His father's sadness made Islam downcast too.

Variants

  • kölün çökdürürge

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