"Yemek ve içmek, unutmak için."

Translation: Eating and drinking in order to forget.

[rfpl]

Can this also mean 'to eat and to drink, in order to forget'?

[Ektoraskan]

You're totally correct.

I think the English sentence should be mended.

[bookrabbit]

Both those English sentences mean the same thing so both should be accepted.

[aucunLien]

This hasn't be done yet, or at least "To eat and to drink is to forget" is the suggested translation at the moment.

[miracsan]

The sentence actually means the thing you have written above. I mean, the sentence is not supposed to mean "Eat+drink=forget", but is rather meant to show some purpose, reason etc. for eating and drinking.

[Siar_0]

This sentence makes no sense..

[FaizalZahid]

Can this also means "eating and drinking, for forgetting", as I recall 'için' in the phrase "Bu sizin için"(This is for you)?

[lucaturilli]

Yes, it can.

[FaizalZahid]

Thanks

[lucaturilli]

you're welcome

[Hakim747]

Err. Then why I got it as wrong? :/
Is it because I didn't put the comma...

[SabineBergmann1]

No, I got it wrong as well and I put the comma.

[ShazaKhattab]

does it mean food and drink is for forgetting?

[AlexinNotTurkey]

Nope :) These are both verbs (which is made evident by içmek which is not a noun, unlike yemek). "A drink" is "içecek," "içki," or "meşrubat," depending on what type of drink and why type of person you are talking to. :)

[giscowboy]

Terrific examples, Selcen! Sometimes I sit down to try to plow through a couple of your modules, and it can be sheer maddening agony. But now that I've reached Negation and Infinitive, I'm getting at least some sense of how mature thought is expressed.

Before now, I've felt stuck in "The cat is going from the house to the garden". I mean, what kind of conversation starter is that?;-)

[JamesTWils]

It is always quite confusing when there is a period, so I am expecting a sentence. Of course, an English sentence would require a finite verb, so I tried "To eat and drink are for forgetting," but I should have realized a sentence was not asked for.

[Salmashahalam]

In order to forget eat and drink?
kindly correct me if i am wrong!!!

[JamesTWils]

That's an imperative in English so I think it would require the Turkish imperative: "Ye ve iç, unutmak için."

[Kimura531652]

If you see something, say nothing, and drink to forget. This PSA has been brought to you by the Night Vale Secret Police.

[Emma622603]

What is this weird sentence???

[Guochan_007]

It seems to be a nonsense to me, but it also makes a little bit of sense 'casue sometimes people drink to forget.

[evelyn-miriam]

I don´t understand why they constantly use the continous form in the English translation, although we are learning the Turkish infinitive in that skill.

[awilliams-atx]

Wow these edgy Turkish course contributors are outdoing themselves. This is such a depressing example sentence. What are you guys thinking????