妾をお忘れになったのですか。

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English Translation

Have you forgotten about me?

FYI: The author from Tatoeba is not a Japanese native speaker. No one says 妾 in the modern era. 妾 with several pronunciations means:

  1. めかけ or そばめ = mistress or second wife. 妾 (めかけ) をお忘れになったのですか？ = Did you leave your mistress behind?

  2. わらわ = I/my/me/mine used by queens or princesses only. 妾 (わらわ) をお忘れになったのですか？ = Your Highness, did you forget me? NOTE: we rarely pronounce 妾 as わらわ. This sentence sounds like a line from a historical drama.

The same English sentence was translated to another Japanese sentence by the same non-native speaker (ID: 1248730):

あたしをお忘れになったのですか。

This one is also unnatural because あたし instead of 私/わたし is a very colloquial expression whereas お忘れになったのですか sounds very polite. The two different tones are mixed in a single sentence.