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forstaa

forstaa is the alternative spelling of forsta.

Meaning of forsta

Verb

forsta (third-person singular simple present forstas, present participle forstaing, simple past and past participle forstaed)

  1. (Scotland, intransitive, transitive) To comprehend; understand.
    • A cripple I'm not, ye forsta me, Tho' lame of a hand that I be; [...]1714, Joseph Ritson, Scotish song

Forms of forstaa

third-person singular presentforstaas
present participleforstaaing
past participleforstaaed
pastforstaaed

Questions about forstaa

What is forstaa the alternative spelling of?
Forstaa is the alternative spelling of forsta.

Words near forstaa in the dictionary

  1. forspread
  2. Forssman
  3. Forssmans
  4. Forst
  5. forsta
  6. forstaa
  7. forstaaed
  8. forstaaing
  9. forstaas
  10. forstaed
  11. forstaing

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Adapted from Wiktionary: forstaa (page history and authors); forsta (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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