fortfahren
German
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈfɔʁtˌfaːʁən/
Audio (file) - Hyphenation: fort‧fah‧ren
Verb
fortfahren (class 6 strong, third-person singular present fährt fort, past tense fuhr fort, past participle fortgefahren, past subjunctive führe fort, auxiliary haben or sein)
- (intransitive) to drive away, drive off
- Er ist mit dem Motorrad fortgefahren.
- He drove off on the motorcycle
- (transitive) to drive away, remove by means of a vehicle
- Den Papiermüll fahre ich am Samstag fort.
- I’ll drive the paper trash away on Saturday.
- (intransitive, often with mit (with)) to continue
- Die Lehrerin ist/hat nach der kleinen Störung mit ihrem Unterricht fortgefahren.
- The teacher continued with her lesson after the brief disruption.
- (intransitive, with zu + infinitive) to continue, to resume (doing something)
Conjugation
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Synonyms
- (drive away, drive off): wegfahren, abfahren, abreisen, verreisen
- (drive away, remove by vehicle): abtransportieren, fortbringen, wegbringen, wegfahren
- (continue): fortsetzen, fortführen, weiterführen
Further reading
- “fortfahren” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
- “fortfahren” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
- “fortfahren” in Duden online
- “fortfahren” in OpenThesaurus.de
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