russian word

to recall, remember, reminisce in Russian: вспоминать

verbimperfectivelevel A1#882 by frequency

every form stress-marked · levels from the official TORFL lexical minimum

What does вспоминать mean in Russian?

Бабушка часто вспоминает своё детство в деревне.

Grandmother often reminisces about her childhood in the village.

Я смотрю на старые фотографии и вспоминаю наших друзей.

I look at the old photographs and remember our friends.

This verb is imperfective: ongoing or repeated action. Its perfective partner, for a completed one-time result, is

Stress marks show the stressed vowel; it moves between forms more often than learners expect.

imperative
ты	вспоминай
вы	вспоминайте

present activeвспоминающий

past activeвспоминавший

present passiveвспоминаемый

gerund (imperfective)вспоминая

gerund (perfective)вспоминав

gerund (perfective)вспоминавши