"Yemek ve içmek, unutmak için."
Translation:Eating and drinking in order to forget.
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This hasn't be done yet, or at least "To eat and to drink is to forget" is the suggested translation at the moment.
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Both those English sentences mean the same thing so both should be accepted.
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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.
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Can this also means "eating and drinking, for forgetting", as I recall 'için' in the phrase "Bu sizin için"(This is for you)?
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Err. Then why I got it as wrong? :/ Is it because I didn't put the comma...
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The English translation is poor. What would be better is:
"Eat and drink, to forget" or if you change the order of the Turkish sentence "To forget, eat and drink"
The idea can be emphasised with: "Be merry to forget the past" or "To forget the past, be merry" Note the apostrophe positions
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. :)
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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?;-)
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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.
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The comments suggest one can use either the English gerund or the infinitive here, but I still got "To eat and to drink in order to forget" marked incorrect even though it means the same as "Eating and drinking in order to forget". Is this an oversight? I think both should be listed as correct.
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This is still not accepting the English infinitives. While it's not the smoothest translation in English, if our goal is to learn the infinitives it's more helpful for us to learn to translate yemek as "to eat" rather than as "eating".
