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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Middle English forgeten, forgiten, foryeten, forȝiten, from Old English forġietan (“to forget”) [influenced by Old Norse geta ("to get, to guess")], from Proto-West Germanic *fragetan (“to give up, forget”). Equivalent to for- + get.
Cognate with :
- Scots forget, forȝet (“to forget”),
- West Frisian fergette, ferjitte, forjitte (“to forget”),
- Dutch vergeten (“to forget”),
- German vergessen (“to forget”).
Pronunciation[edit]
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /fəˈɡɛt/,[1] (less commonly:) /fɔːˈɡɛt/
Audio (RP, ‘to forget’) (file) - (General American) IPA(key): /fɚˈɡɛt/,[2][3][4] (less commonly:) /fɔɹˈɡɛt/[2][3][4]
Audio (GA) (file) - Rhymes: -ɛt
- Hyphenation: for‧get
Verb[edit]
forget (third-person singular simple present forgets, present participle forgetting, simple past forgot or (archaic) forgat, past participle forgotten or (rare) forgot)
- (transitive) To lose remembrance of.
- I have forgotten most of the things I learned in school.
- 1593, Tho[mas] Nashe, Christs Teares Over Ierusalem. […], London: […] Iames Roberts, and are to be solde by Andrewe Wise, […], OCLC 846581854, folio 60, verso:
- VVe (of all earthlings) are Gods vtmoſt ſubiects, the laſt (in a manner) that he bought to his obedience: ſhal we then forgette that vvee are any ſubiects of hys, becauſe (as amongſt his Angels) he is not viſibly conuerſant amongſt vs?
- 1922, Margery Williams, The Velveteen Rabbit:
- For at least two hours the Boy loved him, and then Aunts and Uncles came to dinner, and there was a great rustling of tissue paper and unwrapping of parcels, and in the excitement of looking at all the new presents the Velveteen Rabbit was forgotten.
- (transitive) To unintentionally not do, neglect.
- I forgot to buy flowers for my wife at our 14th wedding anniversary.
- (transitive) To unintentionally leave something behind.
- I forgot my car keys in the living room.
- (intransitive) To cease remembering.
- Let's just forget about it.
- (slang) Euphemism for fuck, screw (a mild oath).
- Forget you!
Usage notes[edit]
- In sense 1 and 4 this is a catenative verb that takes the gerund (-ing).
- In sense 2 this is a catenative verb that takes the to infinitive.
- See Appendix:English catenative verbs
Synonyms[edit]
Antonyms[edit]
Derived terms[edit]
Terms derived from forget
Translations[edit]
to lose remembrance of
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to unintentionally not do
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to leave behind
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to cease remembering
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References[edit]
- forget in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911
- forget in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
- ^ “forget”, in Collins English Dictionary.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 “forget”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 “forget” in the Cambridge English Dictionary, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 “forget”, in Collins English Dictionary; from Michael Agnes, editor, Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th edition, Cleveland, Oh.: Wiley, 2010, →ISBN.
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