Translation
to forget
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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 is an oversight rather than the act of forgetting, which would be o.
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Word family
Words built on forgesi with Esperanto's affixes. Read each one from its parts.
- forgesemaadjective
forgetful
forgesi-em-: inclined to forget
- neforgeseblaadjective
unforgettable
neforgesi-ebl-: not able to be forgotten
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Start your free weekThis word is taught in chapter 4, lesson 1: forgesi, ĝusta, efektiva and 7 more words.