# forget
## English
### Etymology

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

* (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /fəˈɡɛt/, (less commonly:) /fɔːˈɡɛt/
* Audio (Received Pronunciation); “to forget”:(file)
* (General American) IPA: /fɚˈɡɛt/, (less commonly:) /fɔɹˈɡɛt/
* Audio (General American):(file)
* Hyphenation: for‧get
* Rhymes: -ɛt

### Verb

forget (third-person singular simple present forgets, present participle forgetting, simple past forgot or (obsolete) forgat, past participle forgotten or (archaic or colloquial) 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, 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?
** 1921 June, Margery Williams, “The Velveteen Rabbit: Or How Toys Become Real”, in Harper’s Bazar, volume LVI, number 6 (2504 overall), New York, N.Y.: International Magazine Company, →ISSN, →OCLC: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.
** 1928, Lawrence R. Bourne, chapter 4, in Well Tackled!‎:Technical terms like ferrite, perlite, graphite, and hardenite were bandied to and fro, and when Paget glibly brought out such a rare exotic as ferro-molybdenum, Benson forgot that he was a master ship-builder, […]
** 1929, Robert Dean Frisbee, The Book of Puka-Puka, Eland, published 2019, page 35:Everybody, old and young, laughs uproariously at this and immediately forgets all about it.
** 2018, Guy Beiner, Forgetful Remembrance, page 625:In conditions of unlimited global-digital 'web-memory' (labelled by one critic a 'globital age'), social remembering and forgetting have become functions of algorithm-based search technologies that mine data from users […]
* (transitive) To unintentionally not do, neglect.
    I forgot to buy flowers for my wife at our 14th wedding anniversary.
** 1905, Lord Dunsany [i.e., Edward Plunkett, 18th Baron of Dunsany], The Gods of Pegāna, London: [Charles] Elkin Mathews, […], →OCLC:Pray, thou, therefore, to Slid, and forget not Slid, and it may be that Slid will not forget to send thee Death when most thou needest it.
* (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.
    He forgot having already visited this city.
* (transitive, loosely, informal) To not realize something (regardless of whether one has ever known it).
    People forget how much work goes into what we do.
* (slang) Euphemism for fuck, screw (a mild oath).
    Forget you!

#### Usage notes

* 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

* obliviate, overlook, pass over, disremember

#### Antonyms

* acquire, learn, mind, recall, recollect, remember, reminisce

#### Derived terms

* and don't you forget it
* don't forget to write
* eaten bread is soon forgotten
* fire and forget
* foggetaboutit
* forget about
* forget about it
* forgetful
* forget it
* forget-me-not
* forgetness
* forget oneself
* forget one's manners
* forgettability
* forgettable
* forgettance
* forgetter
* forgettery
* forget to take one's medication this morning
* forget to take one's pills this morning
* forget you
* forgive and forget
* forgive but don't forget
* lest we forget
* not forgetting
* right to be forgotten
* set-and-forget
* the Internet never forgets
* un-forget
* unforgettable

#### Translations

Afrikaans: vergeet (af)
Aklanon: lipat
Albanian: harroj (sq)
American Sign Language: OpenB@Forehead-PalmBack OpenA@FromSfhead-ThumbAside
Amharic: ረሳ (räsa), መርሳት (märsat)
Arabic: نَسِيَ (nasiya)
Chadian Arabic: نسي (nisi)
Egyptian Arabic: نسي (nisi)
Gulf Arabic: نسى (nisa)
Hijazi Arabic: نسي (nisi)
Moroccan Arabic: نسى (nsa)
South Levantine Arabic: نسي (nísi)
Armenian: մոռանալ (hy) (moṙanal)
Aromanian: ultu, agãrshescu, xihãsescu
Assamese: পাহৰ (pahor), পাহৰি যা (pahori za)
Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܢܵܫܹܐ (naše), ܡܲܢܫܹܐ (mānše)
Asturian: escaecer
Azerbaijani: unutmaq (az), yaddan çıxmaq
Bashkir: онотоу (onotow)
Basque: ahaztu, ahantzi
Belarusian: забыва́ць impf (zabyvácʹ), забы́ць pf (zabýcʹ)
Bengali: ভুলে যাওয়া (bn) (bhule jaōẇa)
Bhojpuri: भूलल (bhūlal)
Breton: ankounac'haat (br)
Bulgarian: забра́вям (bg) impf (zabrávjam), забра́вя (bg) pf (zabrávja)
Burmese: မေ့ (my) (me.), ဖြေဖျောက် (my) (hprehpyauk)
Buryat: мартаха (martaxa)
Catalan: oblidar (ca)
Cebuano: limot
Chechen: диц да (dic da)
Cherokee: ᎤᏮᎨᏫᏍᎦ (uwvgewisga), ᎬᎨᏫᏍᏗ (gvgewisdi)
Chinese:
Cantonese: 唔記得 / 唔记得 (m$^4$ gei$^3$ dak$^1$)
Dungan: вон (von), вондё (vondi͡o)
Hokkien: 𣍐記得 / 𫧃记得 (bōe-kì-tit / bǒe-kì-tit / bē-kì-tit / bōe-kì-chit / bē-kì-chit / bōe-kì-lit / bē-kì-lit / bōe-kì-eh / bē-kì-eh)
Mandarin: 忘記 / 忘记 (zh) (wàngjì), 忘 (zh) (wàng), 忘掉 (zh) (wàngdiào)
Wu: 忘記 / 忘记 ($^6$maon-ci)
Czech: zapomínat (cs) impf, zapomenout (cs) pf
Dalmatian: dementicur
Danish: glemme (da)
Dutch: vergeten (nl)
Egyptian: (smḫ)
Elfdalian: glemm åv
Esperanto: forgesi (eo)
Estonian: unustama (et)
Even: омӈа- (omŋa-)
Evenki: омңо-
Extremaduran: orvial
Faroese: gloyma
Finnish: unohtaa (fi)
Franco-Provençal: oubliar
French: oublier (fr), essoubler (fr) (Saint-Étienne dialect)
Friulian: dismenteâ, disgludâ
Galician: esquecer (gl), esquencer
Gallurese: sminticà, ulvidà
Georgian: დავიწყება (davic̣q̇eba)
German: verlernen (de), vergessen (de)
Gothic: 𐌿𐍆𐌰𐍂𐌼𐌿𐌽𐌽𐍉𐌽 (ufarmunnōn)
Greek: ξεχνώ (el) (xechnó), λησμονώ (el) (lismonó)
Ancient: ἐπιλανθάνομαι (epilanthánomai), ἀμνηστέω (amnēstéō)
Greenlandic: puiguivoq, puiuivoq
Haitian Creole: bliye
Hawaiian: poina
Hebrew: שָׁכַח (he) (shakhákh)
Higaonon: kalipat
Hindi: भूलना (hi) (bhūlnā), भूल जाना (hi) (bhūl jānā)
Hungarian: felejt (hu), elfelejt (hu)
Icelandic: gleyma (is)
Ido: obliviar (io)
Indonesian: lupa (id)
Ingrian: unohtaa
Ingush: диц де (dic de)
Interlingua: oblidar
Irish: dearmad a dhéanamh de
Istriot: desmaèntegà
Italian: dimenticare (it), scordare (it)
Japanese: 忘れる (ja) (わすれる, wasureru)
Javanese: lali (jv) (casual), kesupen (polite)
Kabyle: ttu
Kashmiri: مَشُن (maśun), مٔشِتھ گَژھُن (mạśith gaċhun)
Kazakh: ұмыту (ūmytu)
Khmer: ភ្លេច (km) (phlɨc)
Korean: 잊다 (ko) (itda), 잊어버리다 (ko) (ijeobeorida)
Kurdish:
Northern Kurdish: ji bîr kirin (ku), jibîrkirin (ku)
Kyrgyz: унутуу (ky) (unutuu)
Lao: ລືມ (lư̄m)
Latin: oblīvīscor, amitto memoriam, dedisco
Latvian: aizmirst (lv)
Lithuanian: pamiršti
Low German:
German Low German: vergeten
Luxembourgish: vergiessen
Macedonian: заборава (zaborava)
Malay: lupa
Maltese: nesa
Manchu: ᠣᠩᡤᠣᠮᠪᡳ (onggombi)
Maori: wareware
Maranao: lipat
Marathi: विसरणे (mr) (visarṇe)
Megleno-Romanian: uľt
Mongolian: мартах (mn) (martax)
Nahuatl: ilcahua
Nanai: онгбо- (oŋbo-)
Neapolitan: scurdà
Ngazidja Comorian: uɗiwaza
Norman: oublier
North Frisian: (Mooring) ferjeese, (Föhr-Amrum) ferjid
Northern Sami: vajálduhttit
Norwegian:
Bokmål: glemme (no), glømme
Nynorsk: gløyma
Occitan: demembrar (oc), doblidar (oc), oblidar (oc)
Old English: forġietan
Old Javanese: lali
Old Norse: gleyma
Oromo: dagachuu
Osage: kisúðaži
Ottoman Turkish: اونوتمق (unutmak)
Pashto: هېرول (herawᶕl), له ياده ايستل (layãdaistǝ́l), له ياده وتل (layãdawatǝ́l)
Persian: فراموش کردن (fa) (farâmuš kardan), از یاد بردن (az yâd bordan)
Pipil: -elkawa, -elcahua
Polish: zapominać (pl) impf, zapomnieć (pl) pf
Portuguese: esquecer (pt)
Punjabi:
Gurmukhi: ਭੁੱਲਣਾ (bhullaṇā)
Shahmukhi: بُھلّݨا (bhullṇā)
Quechua: qunqay (qu), gongai
Romani: bistrel
Romanian: uita (ro)
Romansch: emblidar, amblidar, invlidar
Russian: забыва́ть (ru) impf (zabyvátʹ), забы́ть (ru) pf (zabýtʹ)
Sanskrit: मृष्यति (sa) (mṛṣyati), विस्मरति (sa) (vismarati)
Santali: ᱦᱤᱲᱤᱧ (hiṛiñ)
Sardinian: olvidare, orbidare, ulvidare, ismenticare, ismentigare, ilmentigare, iscadèssere, iscaèssere
Campidanese: iscarèsciri, olvidai, scaresciri
Logudorese: irmenticare, iscarèssere, olvidare
Sassarese: dimintigà, immintigà
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: забо̀рављати impf, забо̀равити pf, сме̏тнути, за̀бити pf (Kajkavian)
Roman: zabòravljati (sh) impf, zabòraviti (sh) pf, smȅtnuti (sh), zàbiti (sh) pf (Kajkavian)
Sicilian: scurdàrisi (scn)
Sinhalese: අමතක වෙනවා (amataka wenawā)
Slovak: zabúdať impf, zabudnúť (sk) pf
Slovene: pozabiti (sl) pf
Spanish: olvidar (es), olvidarse (es), desmemoriarse (es)
Swahili: -sahau
Swedish: glömma (sv), förgäta (sv) (archaic)
Sylheti: ꠙꠣꠅꠞꠣ (faora), ꠙꠣꠅꠞꠤ ꠎꠣꠅꠣ (faori zaoa)
Tagalog: makalimutan
Tajik: фаромуш кардан (faromuš kardan)
Tamil: மற (ta) (maṟa)
Tatar: онытырга (tt) (onıtırga)
Tetum: haluha
Thai: ลืม (th) (lʉʉm)
Tibetan: བརྗེད་པ (brjed pa)
Tigrinya: ረስዐ (räsʿä)
Turkish: unutmak (tr)
Turkmen: unutmak
Udmurt: вунэтыны (vunetyny)
Ukrainian: забува́ти impf (zabuváty), забу́ти pf (zabúty)
Urdu: بھولنا (bhūlnā), بھول جانا (bhūl jānā)
Uyghur: ئۇنتۇماق (untumaq)
Uzbek: unutmoq (uz)
Venetan: desmentegar
Vietnamese: quên (vi)
Walloon: rovyî (wa)
Welsh: anghofio (cy)
West Frisian: ferjitte
Yiddish: פֿאַרגעסן (fargesn)
Yoruba: gbàgbé
Záparo: washitanu :
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### References

* William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “forget”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
* “forget”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
* ↑ “forget”, in Collins English Dictionary.
* 1 2 “forget”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
* 1 2 “forget”, in Cambridge English Dictionary, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Cambridge University Press, 1999–present.
* 1 2 “forget”, in Collins English Dictionary; from Michael Agnes, editor, Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th edition, Cleveland, Oh.: Wiley, 2010, →ISBN.