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# forgive

«forgive» in Mova's school dictionary: **To stop being angry with someone who did something wrong…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

verb (forgive, forgives, forgave, forgiven, forgiving)

### meaning for a pupil

1) To stop being angry with someone who did something wrong to you, and not try to punish them. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/forgive/#m1)

2) To let someone off paying money they owe. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/forgive/#m2)

3) (forgive me) A polite way to say sorry before saying or asking something. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/forgive/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In feelings and friendship lessons, after someone apologises, forgiving them helps both people move on; forgiving does not mean that what happened was all right, or that you must stay where you are unsafe. In stories, a forgiving hero ends a quarrel. Phrases: «forgive someone for something», «forgive and forget», «forgive me, but ...», «I'll never forgive you».

### examples

- I forgave my brother for breaking my toy. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/forgive/#x1)
- Please forgive me — I didn't mean to hurt you. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/forgive/#x2)
- She found it hard to forgive her friend. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/forgive/#x3)
- Forgive and forget, Grandma always says. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/forgive/#x4)
- Will you ever forgive me? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/forgive/#x5)
- Forgive me, but is this seat free? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/forgive/#x6)
- He forgave the bully when he said sorry and stopped. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/forgive/#x7)
- The bank forgave the farmers' debts after the flood. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/forgive/#x8)
- "Ah, sir, forgive me!" cried the merchant. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/forgive/#x9)

### note

Irregular: forgive, forgave, (have) forgiven. Noun: «forgiveness». Adjective: «forgiving». You can forgive someone and still tell an adult about something harmful; forgiving is not keeping a bad secret.

### In the corpora

- [When an actor forgets a line, making something up to keep the scene going is called improvising, and audiences usually forgive it.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/40-show-day-the-exhibition-the-concert-and-the-big-arts-quiz/13/)
- [Holding on to anger for days keeps you unhappy, so talk it through and try to forgive.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/89-handling-anger/14/)
- [When someone apologises, you say "That's okay" or "Thank you for saying sorry" and try to forgive.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/126-goodbye-thanks-and-sorry/14/)
- [An accident is easy to forgive; a lie about it is harder.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/342-breaking-things-and-hiding-the-pieces/17/)
- [Most accidents are easy to forgive; hiding them is what causes trouble.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/343-accidents-told-too-late/17/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «forgive» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/forgive/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.