dai bog pamiati
English translation: hard to recollect
| 09:58 Mar 14, 2004 |
| Russian to English translations [PRO] Social Sciences - Social Science, Sociology, Ethics, etc. | |||||||
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|  Selected response from: Kirill Semenov Ukraine Local time: 01:20 | ||||||
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| 5 | Your second variant is correct |
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| 4 | God, please make me understand |
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| 4 | let me see |
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| 3 | hard to recollect |
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Your second variant is correct Explanation: G-d, please enhance my memory |
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hard to recollect Explanation: Or, more literally, "God help me to recollect". It's a colloquial expression when someone cannot remember something. |
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God, please make me understand Explanation: or give me an ability to understand |
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let me see Explanation: if you want to preserve some Russian "flavor", you might want to use a direct translation, something like God, grant me memory God, bless me with memory - but not "God, bless my memory" - it would be almost the opposite of the meaning. The expression is used when You think You must have remembered something, but you don't. Or are simply trying hard to recollect it. Kind of trying to boost your mental abilities, resorting to supernatural forces :). |
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