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.
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.
| future | singular | plural |
|---|---|---|
| я / мы | вспомню | вспомним |
| ты / вы | вспомнишь | вспомните |
| он / они | вспомнит | вспомнят |
| past | |
|---|---|
| masc | вспомнил |
| fem | вспомнила |
| neut | вспомнило |
| plural | вспомнили |
| imperative | |
|---|---|
| ты | вспомни |
| вы | вспомните |
Participles and gerunds
past activeвспомнивший
past passiveвспомненный
gerund (perfective)вспомнив
gerund (perfective)вспомнивши