我女朋友叫什么来着
“What is my girlfriend's name?”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
就是特别爱放盐
“just a bit heavy on the salt.”
我女 朋友 叫什么来着
“What is my girlfriend's name?”
想不起来了
“I cannot remember.”
Direct spoken expression in this communicative setting.
Using '来着' softens the awkwardness of forgetting something obvious by presenting it as a momentary mental lapse.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
what was it called again?
Use this sentence-final pattern when you momentarily forget someone's name or a term and are trying to recall it.
Functions here in the compound particle '来着' to indicate a past event or fact that is being recalled.