我刚才想喊您来着 一下给忙忘了
“I meant to tell you, but it just slipped my mind.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
苏琪 刚才是不是统计 给那个冯胜利捐钱呢 是
“Su Qi. Were you just organizing the donations for Feng Shengli? Yeah.”
我刚才 想喊您 来着 一下给 忙忘了
“I meant to tell you, but it just slipped my mind.”
我刚才出去打了个电话 一会我还得出去一趟
“I was on a call, and I have to head out again in a bit.”
“I did not deliberately leave you out; work just overwhelmed me.”
Addressing a senior coworker or supervisor as 'nin' shows standard workplace respect and prevents offense when handling social courtesies like donation drives.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
used at the end of a sentence to indicate a past intention, ongoing action, or recent fact
A very common northern oral particle to soften statements recalling a past thought or action.
got so busy that one forgot
A natural passive-causative construction used colloquially to excuse a slip of memory due to busyness.
Evokes a past ongoing intention, emphasizing that the speaker had the intention before being distracted.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“Sorry. I was busy and forgot to tell you.”
“I was in such a hurry to come get her that I forgot to ask.”