forbear
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This word may also be spelled "forebear" in the sense shown in 2).
forbear
An intransitive verb is one that does not require a direct object (e.g., The man sneezed.).
a. abstenerse
Matt's wife asked him to forbear from making insensitive comments.La esposa de Matt le pidió que se abstuviera de hacer comentarios insensibles.
b. contenerse
The journalist forbore from revealing her source.La periodista se contuvo de revelar su fuente.
A noun is a word referring to a person, animal, place, thing, feeling, or idea (e.g., man, dog, house).
2. (ancestor)
a. el antepasado (M), la antepasada (F)
(m) means that a noun is masculine. Spanish nouns have a gender, which is either feminine (like la mujer or la luna) or masculine (like el hombre or el sol).
(f) means that a noun is feminine. Spanish nouns have a gender, which is either feminine (like la mujer or la luna) or masculine (like el hombre or el sol).
I want to take an ancestry test because I don't know anything about my forbears.Quiero hacerme una prueba de genealogía porque no sé nada de mis antepasados.
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