Aren't you forgetting anything?

Hello PASTEL

How are you these days?
Here in Japan we have a bit too warm spring and cherry flowers are almost gone.


BTW I like your queries because they always contain something to inspire me.
This new one is also inspiring me. Don't you mind if I put my two cents about it?

What I feel is "aren't you forgetting X?" is not a normal question.
It

Paco, definitely "aren't you forgetting something/"

Aren't you forgetting anything?

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Agreed, Abbie that 'something' is the ticket for the normal neutral but what about this?

A: I don't want ANYTHING from this old house! It has nothing but bad memories.

{then A finds some things that are touching and begins to collect a few things. After lunch, A starts to leave, forgetting t

Hello Guys

I google-searched for the usage distributions of the four phrases and got the result below.

(1) Did you forget something/anything? 4390/670
(2) Didn't you forget something/anything? 932/3760
(3) Are you forgetting something/anything? 959/39
(4) Aren't you forgetting something/anything? 6040/46

Couldn't you explain why they ar

Paco,

I regooogled your #1 google and your numbers don't seem to match mine. What gives?


(1) Did you forget something/anything? 4390/670

912 English pages for "Didn't you forget something?".

474 English pages for "Didn't you forget anything?".

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Oooooooooooppppppppps, I made a wee bit of a b

(1) Did you forget something/anything? 4390/670

Here, it's thing specific versus thing general.

(2) Didn't you forget something/anything? 932/3760

912 English pages for "Didn't you forget something?".
474 English pages for "Didn't you forget anything?".

Your numbers seem to be a bit out of whack here, Paco.


(3) Are you forgetting som

Hi, paco!

What a stranger! I'm doing well here and working from my fingers to the bone. What a life! I'm going to the Eastern North of your country on a Sunday this month. It's a famous place for hot spring. Have you ever been to Matushima, ???, Hirosaki? I'm going to enjoy bathing in the blossom cherries! Isn't it exciting? How do you call those little pinky, whity flowers in Japanese

Hello PASTEL

So you are coming to Japan within one or two weeks. It's really nice! Hirosaki is the northernmost big city in Honshuu Island. Cherry flowers in Hirosaki Castle is predicted to bloom in the end of April. But I think, because of this unusual warmness, they will bloom actually earlier than predicted.

Anyway enjoy Hirosaki's cherry flowers and hot spas around there.

Hello JTT

Thank you for the reply. I got the previous numbers by using "google.co.jp". This time I did the same using "google.com". The new result is; "(2) Didn't you forget something (938)/anything (1220)?" I think the number 3760 for "anything" given by "google.co.jp" might be due to some software bags because the sites actually shown are not so abundant.

OK, let's leave the

A: I don't want ANYTHING from this old house! It has nothing but bad memories.

{then A finds some things that are touching and begins to collect a few things. After lunch, A starts to leave, forgetting to take the items}

B: Are't you forgetting 'anything'?

The intonational pattern would of course be different from the normal.

Hi J