fora
Meaning
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- (not-comparable) outside (on the outside of a building or location)
- (not-comparable) abroad; overseas (in another country)
- (not-comparable) out (away from home or one’s usual place)
- (not-comparable) away (to be discarded)
Frequency
Hyphenated as
fo‧ra
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˈfɔ.ɾɐ/
Etymology
From Old Galician-Portuguese fora, from Latin forās (“outside”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰwer- (“door; gate”).
New
ir
- to go (to move to a destination)
- (auxiliary) will; to be going to; forms the future tense
- (auxiliary) to keep on; to go on; ~ on; forms the continuative aspect
- (pronominal) to go; to leave; to depart
- to attend; to go to (to be present in an event)
- (intransitive) to go on until; to last to
- to do; to fare (to have a good or bad result)
- (intransitive) to be doing; formula used in greetings
- (pronominal) to be gone, be on the blink, on the fritz (depleted, destroyed; no longer usable)
- (euphemistic,pronominal) to leave (to die); to depart (to die)
- (intransitive) to go (to begin an action or process)
- (intransitive) to match; to go with (to form a good combination with)
- (intransitive) to like or tolerate
- (intransitive) to follow (to take into account when making choices)
- (intransitive) to range (to encompass values between two given extremes)
- (intransitive) to call (to match the amount of chips in the pot)
- (reflexive) to depart; to leave
- (euphemistic,reflexive) to pass away; to depart; to die
New
ser
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- (copulative) to be (to have the given quality), especially a quality that is intrinsic or not expected to change, contrasting with estar which denotes a temporary quality
- (transitive) to be (to be an example or type of, or the same as)
- (auxiliary) to be; forms the passive voice
- (intransitive) to be; indicates a point in time
- (intransitive) to be in (to be located in)
- (intransitive) to be (to have as one’s place of origin)
- (intransitive) to be (someone’s); to belong to
- (intransitive) to be for; to be to (to have as its purpose)
- (impersonal) to be supposed to; should; introduces an expected or demanded action
- (transitive) to be; to cost (to be worth a given amount of money)
- (intransitive) to happen; to take place; to occur
- (intransitive) to be against or in favour of
- (intransitive,poetic) to exist; to be
- (impersonal,transitive) used for emphasis
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