Participles
| Present | forbirnende |
| Past | forburnen |
Indicative
Present
| 1st sing. | forbirne |
| 2nd sing. | forbirnst |
| 3rd sing. | forbirnþ |
| 1st plur. | forbirnaþ |
| 2nd plur. | forbirnaþ |
| 3rd plur. | forbirnaþ |
Past
| 1st sing. | forbarn; forborn; forbearn |
| 2nd sing. | forburne |
| 3rd sing. | forbarn; forborn; forbearn |
| 1st plur. | forburnon |
| 2nd plur. | forburnon |
| 3rd plur. | forburnon |
Subjunctive
Present
| 1st sing. | forbirne |
| 2nd sing. | forbirne |
| 3rd sing. | forbirne |
| 1st plur. | forbirnen |
| 2nd plur. | forbirnen |
| 3rd plur. | forbirnen |
Past
| 1st sing. | forburne |
| 2nd sing. | forburne |
| 3rd sing. | forburne |
| 1st plur. | forburnen |
| 2nd plur. | forburnen |
| 3rd plur. | forburnen |
Imperative
| Singular | forbirn |
| Plural | forbirnaþ |
Verbs similar to 'forbirnan'
forbærnan,
forbiernan,
forberan,
forbindan,
forbitan,
forwiernan,
birnan,
forbeodan,
forberstan,
forblawan,
Etymology
From Proto-West Germanic *frabrinnan. Equivalent to for- + birnan.
Verbs referencing "forbirnan"
English
forburn.
Sample Sentences
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late 10th century, Ælfric, the Old English Hexateuch, Exodus 3:2 (Moses saw that the bush was burning without being consumed.)
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c. 900, translation of Bede's Ecclesiastical History
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Eft ġelamp æfter tīde fæce þætte sē ilca tūn forbarn and sēo ilce ċiriċe. (Then after a while the same town burned down again, along with the same church.)
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c. 900, translation of Orosius' History Against the Pagans
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Ethna fȳr āflēow upp swā brād and swā miċel þætte eall þā clifu þe nēah þǣre sǣ wǣron forburnon tō ascan. (Mount Etna erupted so explosively that all the cliffs near the sea were burned to ashes.)
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The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle
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Þȳ ilcan ġēare forbarn Lundenbyriġ, ⁊ on þām ilcan ġēare forðferdon tweġen ealdormenn, Æþelmǣr on Hāmtūnsċīre ⁊ Ēadwine on Sūþseaxum. ⁊ Æþelmǣres līc līð on Wintanċeastre on nīwan mynstre, ⁊ Ēadwines on þām mynstre æt Abbandūne. Þǣs ilcan ġēare forðferdon twā abbodessan on Dorsǣtum, Herelufu on Sċeaftesbyriġ ⁊ Wulfwin on Werhām. (In the same year [982], London burned down, and in the same year, two princes passed away: Ethelmer in Hamptonshire and Edwin in Sussex. Ethemer's body lies in the new monastery in Winchester, and Edwin's in the monastery at Abingdon. In the same year, two abbesses passed away in Dorset: Herelufu in Shaftesbury and Wulfwin in Wareham.)
Cognates
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