forgot
- 1Past tense of forget.
He forgot the meeting and missed an important decision.
They forgot where they had parked the car.
Note
The everyday past form needs no helper verb: she forgot, they forgot. It carries every meaning of forget, including losing a memory, failing to do something (he forgot to call), and leaving a thing behind (I forgot my umbrella). After have, standard English switches to forgotten. The same spelling there is the older participle, which marks a speaker as old-fashioned or casual.
- 2Past participle of forget. Archaic or informal; the usual form is forgotten.
He had forgot the name of the street where they once lived.
Sir, Lord Hailes has forgot. There is nothing in Pryor that will excite to lewdness.
1816, James Boswell, quoting Samuel JohnsonNote
An older participle that never quite died out. Prospero demands "hast thou forgot her?" in Shakespeare's The Tempest, and Samuel Johnson says "Lord Hailes has forgot" in Boswell's Life of Samuel Johnson. In Michael Frayn's Skios (2012), "everyone has forgot me" sounds homely rather than antique. In careful modern writing, use forgotten after have, and keep forgot for a period voice or casual speech.
forgot is a form of forget
forget, verb: To be unable to remember something once known, or to stop thinking about it and let it fade from mind. Full entry
- Forms
- forgetforgets he/she/itforgetting -ing formforgot past tenseforgotten past participle
- Spelling
- forget → forgot: irregular (no -ed)
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