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vergessen — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • forget verb To fail to remember something.
  • forgetfulness noun The tendency or state of forgetting things.
  • forgotten adj No longer remembered.
  • oblivion noun A state of being completely forgotten or no longer existing.

Senses

vergessen is used for these senses in English:

  • forget (transitive) To lose remembrance of.
  • forget (transitive) To unintentionally leave something behind.
  • forgetfulness Loss of remembrance or recollection; a ceasing to remember; oblivion.
  • forgotten Of which knowledge has been lost; which is no longer remembered.
  • leave behind (transitive, idiomatic) To forget about.
  • oblivion The state of being completely forgotten, of being reduced to a state of non-existence, extinction, or nothingness, including through war and destruction. (Figuratively) for an area like hell, a wasteland.

forget — full definition

  1. verb To fail to remember something.
  2. verb To accidentally leave something behind.

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