oynağanmı etese
/ojnaʁanmɯ etese/
Literal translation
is it playing that you are doing?
Intended meaning
A rhetorical exclamation used to point out that something is far harder than the person addressed assumes.
- Arığan a, bayam, barı da etgendile [jaşla]. Oynağanmı etese, bıllay tik örnü bılay terk çığarğa bılağa alıqa hazna tüşmegendi.They had all, apparently, grown tired [the boys]. You think it's easy — climbing such a steep rise that fast had hardly ever fallen to them before.
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- Къарачай-малкъар тилни фразеология ангылатма сёзлюгю (2017), p. 370