tünene aşağanın unuturğa
/tynene aʃaʁanɯn unuturʁa/
Literal translation
to forget what one ate yesterday
Intended meaning
To lose one's memory with age; to grow old and absent-minded.
- Anı unutmay tutar es qayda... Ol oğay eseŋ, tünene aşağanımı unuthanma, sorsaŋ da, tüzetib aytallıq tüyülme.Where would I get the memory to hold on to that without forgetting... Never mind that, I have forgotten what I ate yesterday; even if you asked, I could not tell it right.
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- Къарачай-малкъар тилни фразеология ангылатма сёзлюгю (2017), p. 471