Translation
to forget
Examples
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I have forgotten your name.
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Do not forget to write to me!
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He forgot his hat in the room.
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She will never forget that day.
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We forgot that today is a holiday.
Refreshingly plain: is transitive, takes a noun, an infinitive or a clause, and has no reflexive machinery bolted on. Speakers coming from Spanish or Italian expect something like olvidarse and reach for a spare pronoun that Esperanto neither needs nor wants. The for- at the front is the same one as in and , though the root does not exist without it. a is forgetful, and forgeso is an oversight rather than the act of forgetting, which would be o.
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