Get to know Forgive better with 10+ real example sentences, the meaning and synonyms like concede or yield. In Dutch this translates to vergeven.
Forgive meaning
- To pardon (someone); to waive any negative feeling towards or desire for punishment or retribution against.
- To pardon (something); to waive any negative feeling over or retribution for.
- To waive or remit (a debt), to absolve from payment or compensation of.
Forgive vertaling naar Nederlands
Using Forgive
- The main meaning on this page is: To pardon (someone); to waive any negative feeling towards or desire for punishment or retribution against. | To pardon (something); to waive any negative feeling over or retribution for. | To waive or remit (a debt), to absolve from payment or compensation of.
- Useful related words include: concede, yield, grant, exempt.
- Possible Dutch translations are: vergeven.
- In the example corpus, forgive often appears in combinations such as: to forgive, forgive the, forgive me.
Context around Forgive
- Average sentence length in these examples: 24.1 words
- Position in the sentence: 7 start, 9 middle, 4 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Forgive
- In this selection, "forgive" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 24.1 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, mistakes, student, myself and himself stand out and add context to how "forgive" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include he would forgive those who and would never forgive the ones. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "forgive" sits close to words such as bihar, collaborating and despair, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with forgive
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
He believes strongly that God can forgive and will forgive every sin. (12 words)
Forgive your mistakes, forgive other people and become free of that that keeps you restricted. (15 words)
He could forgive his enemies, and he did forgive a number of people who had gone after him. (18 words)
Above all, Christmas is a time to forgive and forget how one upstart little avocado-munching millennial who needs putting in his place overshadowed all the properly important stuff you’ve been doing like, every day this year without so much as a thanks. (44 words)
And I will repeat this to myself again and again, a mantra that throbs within every inch of my being and escapes my lips gingerly — I will forgive, but I will not forget. (33 words)
A trippy little mind-fuck of an anime, I’ll forgive for it’s scenes that now feel so archaic where one character has to explain to another what The Internet is. (32 words)
Example sentences (20)
Forgive your mistakes, forgive other people and become free of that that keeps you restricted.
He believes strongly that God can forgive and will forgive every sin.
Mr. Chopra said you can slap another person — figuratively — and they might forgive you, but if you prove them wrong, they’ll never forgive you.
Give us this day our garlic bread, and forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trample on our lawns.
If either of you get elected president you can forgive my mortgage loan like you are going to forgive student loans.
In order to forgive them, I first had to forgive myself and find my way out of self-deprecation.
He could forgive his enemies, and he did forgive a number of people who had gone after him.
To find that they blamed it all on the Jews—-that was hard to forgive, and in the end, she never did forgive.
He never forgives himself-but suppose God would forgive him; then he might well have the goodness to forgive himself.
Jackson said he would forgive those who insulted him, but he would never forgive the ones who attacked his wife.
Jackson said he would forgive those who insulted him, but he would never forgive the ones who had attacked his wife.
Levinas also condemned Heidegger's involvement with National Socialism, stating: "One can forgive many Germans, but there are some Germans it is difficult to forgive.
Matthew 6:14,15, which follows the Lord's Prayer, says "For if you forgive men when they sin against you, your heavenly Father will also forgive you.
Above all, Christmas is a time to forgive and forget how one upstart little avocado-munching millennial who needs putting in his place overshadowed all the properly important stuff you’ve been doing like, every day this year without so much as a thanks.
And I will repeat this to myself again and again, a mantra that throbs within every inch of my being and escapes my lips gingerly — I will forgive, but I will not forget.
As The Street Profits approached my seat during their entrance, Kevin Dunn cut to commercial break, and I will never forgive him for that kind of foolishness.
A trippy little mind-fuck of an anime, I’ll forgive for it’s scenes that now feel so archaic where one character has to explain to another what The Internet is.
Biden’s executive action to forgive student loans unilaterally, without congressional approval, is being challenged in the U.S. Supreme Court, the stated.
Both of her mothers have since died, and while she never spoke to her birth mother about the attempted abortion, Jennifer did forgive her.
But as Elnicki told Bristowe, while she wants to give Shallcross “some grace and understanding” when it comes to the choices he made, she isn’t quite ready to forgive.
Common combinations with forgive
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- to forgive 82×
- forgive the 21×
- forgive me 18×
- never forgive 16×
- forgive and 13×
- forgive us 11×
- forgive him 11×
- forgive you 10×
- and forgive 9×
- would forgive 9×