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- Verb:
- To forget: To fail to remember information, a fact, an event, or a person.
- To leave behind: To unintentionally fail to bring something or take it with you when you go.
- To neglect: To fail to do something you should do, often because you did not remember it.
- Verb:
- Tôi quên mật khẩu. (I forgot the password.)
- Cô ấy quên cái chìa khóa trên bàn. (She left her keys on the table.)
- Đừng quên nhiệm vụ của mình. (Don't neglect your duty.)
"quên đời": Literally "to forget life"; to be completely absorbed or lost in something (like music, a book), often implying a pleasant escape.
- Anh ấy nghe nhạc cổ điển để quên đời. (He listens to classical music to lose himself in it.)
"quên mình": To forget oneself; to act selflessly, often for a noble cause.
- Người lính quên mình vì tổ quốc. (The soldier sacrificed himself for the nation.)
Quên lãng (v): To fade from memory, to be forgotten over time (more literary).
- Ký ức đó đã bị quên lãng. (That memory has faded into oblivion.)
Sự quên (n): The act or state of forgetting; forgetfulness.
- Sự quên đôi khi là một điều tốt. (Forgetting is sometimes a good thing.)
- Forget: To be unable to recall.
- Leave behind: To fail to take something.
- Neglect: To fail to care for or pay attention to.
- Omit: To leave out or exclude.
Quên ăn quên ngủ: To forget to eat and sleep; to be so preoccupied or passionate about something that one neglects basic needs.
- Anh ấy quên ăn quên ngủ để hoàn thành dự án. (He worked tirelessly, forgetting to eat and sleep, to finish the project.)
Ơn đền nghĩa trả, oán cừu nợ trả, còn tình còn nghĩa là còn nhớ, hết tình hết nghĩa là còn quên: A proverb meaning "Kindness is repaid with gratitude, enmity with retribution; as long as there is affection, there is remembrance, once affection is gone, forgetting remains." It highlights the conditional nature of memory based on feelings.
- to for get
- quên giờto forget the time to leave
- quên cái bút ở nhàto leave one's pen at home, to negleet
- quên nhiệm vụto neglect one's duty