forget → forgot (I presume?)
So you say ‘I forget your number’ when you really mean ‘I forgot your number’?
(or maybe when you mean: "I didn't want to talk to you." ☺ ☺ ☺)
It's so confusing when questions are still here, but the answers have been deleted, since I had exactly the same questions as Pfirsichbaeumchen.
I can only assume the answer was "I forget your phone number" in the present tense means "I don't remember it".
"I don't remember your telephone number" - that's the way I'd understand it. Saying it like this, in the present, sounds more like a prompt to be reminded of it again than the past "I forgot..."
Thank you for your explanation, sundown.
That's really curious. Using "forget" in the present like this is really counter-intuitive to me.
Probably, I'm not alone, as all the translation of this phrase that I understand seem to be using a past tense.
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