Forgivable

Definition

forgive / fǝ'gÇv / v ( pt forgave /fǝ'geÇv /; pp for- given /fǝ'gÇvn /) ၁။ ~ sth; ~ sb (for sth/ doing sth) ခြင့္လႊတ္သည္။ ေဗြမယူ။ I forgave her a long time ago. ❍ I don't want this to spoil our friendship — let's just forgive and forget, shall we? ❍ She forgave him his thoughtless remark. ❍ I cannot forgive myself for not going to see my mother before she died. ❍ One could be forgiven for being (ie it is natural that one would be) a little suspicious. ၂။ ~ sb (for doing sth) ခြင့္လႊတ္ပါ။ Forgive my ignorance, but what exactly are you talking about? ❍ Please forgive me for interrupting/ forgive my interrupting, but… ၃။ (အေႂကြးကို) ေလွ်ာ္ပစ္သည္။ Won't you forgive me such a small debt? ❏ forgivable / -ǝbl / adj ခြင့္လႊတ္ႏိုင္ေလာက္ေသာ။ His rudeness was forgivable in the circumstances. ❏ forgiveness n [U] ခြင့္လႊတ္ျခင္း။ He asked/ begged (my) forgiveness for what he had done. ❍ She shows love and forgiveness for her enemies. ❏ forgiving adj ခြင့္လႊတ္တတ္ေသာ။ ေဗြမယူတတ္ေသာ။ kind and forgiving parents ❍ a forgiving nature.

Examples

1. His children have never fully forgiven him.
2. [forgive someone for doing something] : She eventually forgave him for forgetting her birthday.
3. [forgive yourself] : John has never forgiven himself for the accident.
4. [forgive someone something] : They’re nice boys
5. so we tend to forgive them their occasional bad behaviour.