Forgetting

Definition

forget / fǝ'get / v ( pt forgot /fǝ'gɒt /; pp forgotten /fǝ'gɒtn /) ၁။ ~ (about) sth ေမ့ေလ်ာ့သည္။ သတိမရ။ You forgot (about) my birthday (ie did not remember it at the proper time). ❍ I've forgotten her name. ❍ Did you forget (that) I was coming? ❍ She forgot how the puzzle fitted together. ❍ I'll never forget seeing my daughter dance in public for the first time. ၂။ (က) ေမ့ သည္။ ‘Why didn't you buy any bread?’ ‘Sorry, I forgot. ’ ❍ Don't forget to feed the cat. ❍ He forgot to pay me. ေမ့ေလ်ာ့သည္။ ေမ့သည္။ I forgot my umbrella. ❍ Don't forget the waiter (ie to give him a tip 3 n ၁) ၃။ ~ (about) sb/sth ေမ့လိုက္သည္။ ေမ့သည္။ အမွတ္မထားမိ။ Let's forget (about) our differences. ❍ Try to forget (all) about him. ❍ You can forget about a new car this year __ I've lost my job. ❍ ‘How much do I owe you?’ ‘Forget it!’ . “ကြၽန္ေတာ့္အတြက္ ဘယ္ေလာက္ စိုက္ထားသလဲ။ ” “ကိစၥမရိွဘူး။ ထားလိုက္စမ္းပါ” ❍ Cover the cake with marzipan and icing, not forgetting (ie and also) the roasted almonds. ❍ I was forgetting (that) David used to teach you. ၄။ ~ one self (က) လြတ္သြား သည္။ I'm afraid I rather forgot myself and kissed him wildly. (ခ) (အက်ဳိး)မၾကည့္။ ပမာဏမထား။ Forget yourself and think of someone else for a change. ❏ forgetful / -fl / adj ၁ ။ ေမ့တတ္ေသာ။ Old people are sometimes forgetful. ၂။ ~ of sb / sth ေမ့တတ္ [ေသာ]။ အမွတ္မထားမိ [ေသာ]။ ပ်က္ကြက္ [ေသာ]။ be forgetful of one's duties. ❏ forgetfully / -fǝli / adv ေမ့ေမ့ေလ်ာ့ေလ်ာ့။ သတိမရိွ။ မေတြးမေတာ။ ❏ forgetfulness n [U] ေမ့ေလ်ာ့ျခင္း။ ေမ့တတ္ျခင္း။ ❏ forgettable / -ǝbl / adj မလြမ္းေလာက္ေသာ။ various forgettable pop tunes. Compare UNFORGETTABLE

Examples

1. I’ve forgotten her phone number.
2. [forget how/why/where/when etc] : She always forgets where her car is parked.
3. We first met at university
4. I forget when exactly.
5. [forget about] : Did you forget about our agreement?
6. [forget (that)] : I’d forgotten that you’d already given me the money.
7. [never forget something] : I’ll never forget the look of disappointment on her face.
8. Phil should be here by now. Do you think he’s forgotten?
9. I nearly forgot to invite Josie.
10. I keep forgetting to take my tablets.
11. [forget about] : She had forgotten all about posting the letter.
12. [forget (that)] : I completely forgot that I promised to come and see you!
13. [forget to do something] : Don’t forget to lock the door when you leave.
14. She forgot her sunglasses.
15. [forget about] : I remembered everything else but I forgot about the beach towels.
16. [forget about] : Try to forget about him.
17. [forget that] : People tend to forget that the rights we enjoy now were won through a great struggle.
18. [be best forgotten] : I think last night’s argument is best forgotten
19. don’t you?
20. I think we can forget the idea of a holiday this year.
21. [forget about] : We may have to forget about getting a new car.