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russian word

to remember, to recall, to call to mind in Russian: вспомнить

verbperfectivelevel A1#504 by frequency

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

Я никак не мог вспомнить, где оставил ключи. I just couldn't remember where I had left my keys.

Вдруг она вспомнила, что забыла выключить свет. Suddenly she remembered that she had forgotten to turn off the light.

What does вспомнить mean in Russian?

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to remember, to recall, to call to mind

Я никак не мог вспомнить, где оставил ключи.

I just couldn't remember where I had left my keys.

Вдруг она вспомнила, что забыла выключить свет.

Suddenly she remembered that she had forgotten to turn off the light.

Aspect pair

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

Conjugation of вспомнить

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

futuresingularplural
я / мывспомнювспомним
ты / вывспомнишьвспомните
он / онивспомнитвспомнят
past
mascвспомнил
femвспомнила
neutвспомнило
pluralвспомнили
imperative
тывспомни
вывспомните

Participles and gerunds

past activeвспомнивший
past passiveвспомненный
gerund (perfective)вспомнив
gerund (perfective)вспомнивши