Polyglot Dictionary

fort

/fɔʁt/

adverb B1

der (masc.) die (fem.) das (neut.)

Underline = a spelling pattern that usually signals that gender.

Adv Register Neutral Era Current Frequency Common Domain General Tone Neutral

Meaning

  1. away, gone

    Similar to weg, and common in the separable-verb prefix fort- (e.g. fortgehen, to go away).

    • Er war schon fort, als ich ankam.

      He was already gone by the time I arrived.

Similar words

weg

weg and fort both mean "away/gone" and are largely interchangeable; fort is slightly more literary and appears often as a separable-verb prefix.

Practice

1 What does fort mean?

2 Fill the gap: Er war schon ___, als ich ankam.

3 Which fingerprint chart matches fort?

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