forget

动词 v.
/fəˈɡɛt/    /fɚˈɡɛt/

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. To lose remembrance of. transitive
    — I have forgotten most of the things I learned in school.
  2. To unintentionally not do, neglect. transitive
    — I forgot to buy flowers for my wife at our 14th wedding anniversary.
  3. To unintentionally leave something behind. transitive
    — I forgot my car keys in the living room.
  4. To cease remembering. intransitive
    — Let's just forget I ever told you anything about it.
  5. To not realize something (regardless of whether one has ever known it). broadly,informal,transitive
    — People forget how much work goes into what we do.
  6. Euphemism for fuck, screw (a mild oath). slang
    — Forget you!

词形变化

forgets present,singular,third-person forgetting participle,present forgot past forgat obsolete,past forgotten participle,past forgot archaic,colloquial,participle,past

词源

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”).
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