Translation for 'to forget sb sth' from English to French

to forget sb./sth.

oublier qn./qc.

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to forget sth.

perdre qc. de vue [fig.]

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to quietly forget sth.

jeter une voile pudique sur qc. [fig.]

to forget to do sth.

oublier de faire qc.

manquer de faire qc.

to forget all about sth.

passer l'éponge sur qc. [fig.]

to try to forget sth.

faire oublier qc.

to forget about sth. deliberately

passer qc. à l'as

to forget doing sth. [no longer remember doing]

ne plus se souvenir d'avoir fait qc.

sb. can't wait for sb./sth. to do sth.

qn. a hâte que qn./qc. fasse qc.

to move sb/sth. away from sb./sth.

éloigner qn./qc. de qn./qc.

to place sb. under the protection of sb./sth.

placer qn. sous la protection de qn./qc.

to mistake sb./sth. for sb./sth. (else)

confondre qn./qc. avec qn./qc. (d'autre)

to hide sb./sth. from sb.'s view

soustraire qn./qc. à la vue de qn.

to keep sb./sth. away from sb./sth.

tenir qn./qc. hors de portée de qn./qc.

to take sb./sth. away from sb./sth.

enlever qn./qc. à qn./qc.

to get sb./sth. used to sb./sth.

habituer qn./qc. à qn./qc.

to bracket sb./sth. with sb./sth. [equate]

assimiler qn./qc. à qn./qc.

to keep sb./sth. back from sb./sth.

éloigner qn./qc. de qn./qc.

to separate sb./sth. from sb./sth.

dissocier qn./qc. de qn./qc. [séparer]

to accustom sb./sth. to sb./sth.

acclimater qn./qc. à qn./qc.

• Joe and Howie decide not only to forget about their girlfriends but also about Glen Hogan.
• An inability to forget can cause distress, as with posttraumatic stress disorder and hyperthymesia (in which people have an extremely detailed autobiographical memory).
• in the observed mass spectrum reinforces the choice to forget this mass limit".
• But, all the while, the danse macabre urged them not to forget the end of all earthly things."
• Syn made him the village sexton upon condition that Mipps "remember to forget" (that Syn had been Clegg and that they had known each other before), and that Mipps never get involved with the local smugglers.

• takes Susan to Europe to forget about Steve.
• Since it was quite easy to stack interconnections (wires) inside the embedding matrix, the approach allowed designers to forget completely about the routing of wires (usually a time-consuming operation of PCB design): Anywhere the designer needs a connection, the machine will draw a wire in a straight line from one location/pin to another.
• She drinks often, saying that she is trying to forget her hard life.
• Bergman said that the remarks had been difficult to forget, and had caused her to avoid the country for nine years.
• He encourages Carlos to leave Spain and go to Flanders, and to forget his pain by focusing on political activity there.

• She tries to forget her doubt, entertaining her worried heart with the dance of Moorish slaves (Chorus, Amneris: "Vieni: sul crin ti piovano" / Come bind your flowing tresses).
• His father, Mnaseas, had a name ambiguously meaningful both in Phoenician ("one causing to forget") and in Greek ("mindful").
• Odysseus visited the lotus-eaters who gave his men their fruit which caused them to forget their homecoming.
• Ximénez decides to forget the introduction and has Cardinal Fang read out charges of heresy against Cleveland who pleads "innocent", and the cardinals respond with laughter (as an on-screen caption reads "DIABOLICAL LAUGHTER") and threats (as the on-screen caption changes to "DIABOLICAL ACTING").
• Situationist film maker Guy Debord, author of "The Society of the Spectacle", began his film "In girum imus nocte et consumimur igni" with a radical critique of the spectator who goes to the cinema to forget about their dispossessed daily life.

• The nickname "Pops" came from Armstrong's own tendency to forget people's names and simply call them "Pops" instead.
• The shades of the dead were required to drink the waters of the Lethe in order to forget their earthly life.