forth in English: Forward, or out from a place; used mostly in set phrases like back and forth. (adverb)

Translation

Forward, or out from a place; used mostly in set phrases like back and forth.

Word origin

From Old English forth, meaning forward or onward, from the same root as forward.

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"Back and forth" means one way and then the other, again and again.

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Here forth means out and forward; it sounds old or formal.

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"And so forth" means and other things of the same kind.

forward

Toward the front; in the direction ahead of you.

back

Towards the place or position where someone or something was before.

go

To move or travel from one place to another.

out

Away from the inside of a place, or no longer inside.

come

To move towards the person who is speaking, or to arrive at a place.

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