forgive
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 →
2) To let someone off paying money they owe. tree →
3) (forgive me) A polite way to say sorry before saying or asking something. tree →
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 →
- Please forgive me — I didn't mean to hurt you. tree →
- She found it hard to forgive her friend. tree →
- Forgive and forget, Grandma always says. tree →
- Will you ever forgive me? tree →
- Forgive me, but is this seat free? tree →
- He forgave the bully when he said sorry and stopped. tree →
- The bank forgave the farmers' debts after the flood. tree →
- "Ah, sir, forgive me!" cried the merchant. tree →
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.
- Holding on to anger for days keeps you unhappy, so talk it through and try to forgive.
- When someone apologises, you say "That's okay" or "Thank you for saying sorry" and try to forgive.
- An accident is easy to forgive; a lie about it is harder.
- Most accidents are easy to forgive; hiding them is what causes trouble.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «forgive» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.