Irregular verb · #98 by frequency

forgive — past tense and past participle

Baseforgivefəˈɡɪv

Past simpleforgavefəˈɡeɪv

Past participleforgivenfəˈɡɪvən

In a sentence

Base: Good friends forgive each other's small mistakes.

Past simple: She forgave her brother after their argument.

Past participle: He has finally forgiven himself for the mistake.

Translations

Españolperdonar

Françaispardonner

Русскийпрощать

Українськапробачати

Deutschvergeben

Portuguêsperdoar

Italianoperdonare

Polskiwybaczać

Türkçeaffetmek

Pattern

One of a kind

Verbs whose forms follow no reusable pattern: be, go, do, have. Pure memorization, and the highest-frequency verbs in the language — so they get drilled first regardless.

Same pattern

be do go see come give

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