# remember
## English
### Etymology 1

From Middle English remembren, from Old French remembrer (“to remember”), from Late Latin rememorari (“to remember again”), from re- + memor (“mindful”), from Proto-Indo-European *mer-, *(s)mer- (“to think about, be mindful, remember”). Cognate with Old English mimorian, mymerian (“to remember, commemorate”), Old English māmorian (“to deliberate, plan out, design”). More at mammer.
The success of the Old French word was helped by its proximity in sound and meaning to an existing Germanic word: Old English mimorian, mymerian (“to remember, commemorate”) from Proto-Germanic *mimrōną, *mīmrōną (“to remember, be mindful”), from the same Indo-European source, and is akin to Saterland Frisian miemerje (“to ponder, reflect”), Middle Low German mimeren (“to ponder, meditate”), Middle Dutch mimeren (“to reflect, think to oneself”) (Dutch mijmeren (“to muse, reflect deeply”)), Old English ġemimor (“mindful”), Old Norse Mímir, Mim (“Norse god of memory”), Old English māmrian (“to think out, design”). Related to mourn.
Displaced native Middle English ȝemuneȝen (“to remember”), from Old English ġemynegian (“to remember, remind”); Middle English minnen (“to remember, have in mind”), from Old Norse minna (“to remind”); Middle English munden, ȝemunden (“to bear in mind, remember”), from Old English ġemynd (“memory, remembrance”); Middle English ithenchen, ȝethenchen (“to think on, remember”), from Old English ġeþencan; Middle English manien (“to remind, mention, remember”), from Old English manian (“to admonish, remind, mention”).

#### Pronunciation

* (General American) IPA: /ɹɪˈmɛmbɚ/, /ɹəˈmɛmbɚ/
* (General American, uncommon or dialectal, in rapid speech) IPA: /ˈmɛmbɚ/, /ˈɹɪmbɚ/, /ˈɹɛmbɚ/
* (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ɹɪˈmɛmbə/
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* Rhymes: -ɛmbə(ɹ)
* Hyphenation: re‧mem‧ber

#### Verb

remember (third-person singular simple present remembers, present participle remembering, simple past and past participle remembered)
* To recall from one's memory; to have an image in one's memory.
** 1852, Mrs M.A. Thompson, “The Tutor's Daughter”, in Graham's American Monthly Magazine of Literature, Art, and Fashion‎, page 266:In the lightness of my heart I sang catches of songs as my horse gayly bore me along the well-remembered road.
** 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 6, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:[…] I remember a lady coming to inspect St. Mary's Home where I was brought up and seeing us all in our lovely Elizabethan uniforms we were so proud of, and bursting into tears all over us because “it was wicked to dress us like charity children”.
** 1971, Lyndon Johnson, The Vantage Point‎, Holt, Reinhart & Winston, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 104:A man's vision reflects his memories. As I looked out on the nation from the President's Oval Office, my reflections included images burned deep in my mind for over a half a century. I remembered my father's concern for the tenant farmer and for the workers' need for collective bargaining. I remembered my mother's deep faith in the value of education. I remembered the pinched and hopeless look of poverty I saw on the faces of the Mexican-American children I had taught. I remembered the army of jobless and ragged men who rode grimy boxcars across our country during the Depression. These and a hundred other separate recollections of struggle and hope were all part of my heritage. They formed a portion of the background against which I developed the programs I felt America wanted and needed.
** 2012, Mick Brown, Tearing Down The Wall of Sound: The Rise And Fall of Phil Spector:Spencer remembers the session as being 'as boring as beans'. A handful of copies of the record were pressed with the catalogue number Philles 111, and copies sent to both Sill and Finfer.
** 2015, Orren Merton, The Dawning of Firebird Alex:[…] take the Ginger Line overground from Canada Water to Penge West. So you'll be getting off the Tube, and taking the train. I know you're American, but can you remember that?
** 2016, VOA Learning English (public domain)
    Remember me? I live in your building.
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** 2018 January 1, Donald McRae, “The Guardian footballer of the year 2017: Juan Mata”, in The Guardian‎:We have met twice this year and, during our first interview, Mata spoke evocatively when remembering how, having joined Real Oviedo aged 10 in 1998, he was given a previously unimaginable opportunity. Mata sat in a car park in 2003, when he was 14, and watched his father talking to a Real Madrid scout.
** 2021, President Joe Biden, (Please provide the book title or journal name):To heal, we must remember. It's hard sometimes to remember, but that's how we heal. It's important to do that as a nation.
* To memorize; to put something into memory.
    Please remember this formula!
* To keep in mind; to be mindful of.
    Remember what I've said.
* To not forget (to do something required)
    Remember to lock the door when you go out.
* To convey greetings from.
    Please remember me to your brother.
    She asks to be remembered to you all.
** 1613–1614 (date written), John Fletcher, William Shak[e]speare, The Two Noble Kinsmen: […], London: […] Tho[mas] Cotes, for Iohn Waterson; […], published 1634, →OCLC, Act I, scene i, page 3:Emil. Thanckes Sir; Remember me To our all royall Brother, for whose speede The great Bellona ile sollicite; and […]
* (obsolete) To put in mind; to remind (also used reflexively).
** 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii]:Since thou dost give me pains, / Let me remember thee what thou hast promis'd, / Which is not yet perform'd me.
** 1614–1615, Homer, “(please specify the book number)”, in Geo[rge] Chapman, transl., Homer’s Odysses. […], London: […] Rich[ard] Field [and William Jaggard], for Nathaniell Butter, published 1615, →OCLC; republished in The Odysseys of Homer, […], volume (please specify the book number), London: John Russell Smith, […], 1857, →OCLC:My friends remember'd me of home.The spelling has been modernized.
** 1870, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Secret Parting, lines 5–7:But soon, remembering her how brief the whole Of joy, which its own hours annihilate, Her set gaze gathered
* (intransitive) To engage in the process of recalling memories.
    You don't have to remind him; he remembers very well.
* (transitive) To give (a person) money as a token of appreciation of past service or friendship.
    My aunt remembered me in her will, leaving me several thousand pounds.
** 2003, Little Visits 365 Family Devotions: Building Faith for a Lifetime, Concordia Publishing House:Waitresses, mail carriers, and teachers were often remembered on Boxing Day.
* (transitive) To commemorate, to have a remembrance ceremony.
    Today we remember and honour those who have served.

##### Usage notes

* In sense 1 this is a catenative verb that takes the gerund (-ing).
* In sense 3 this is a catenative verb that takes the to infinitive.
* See Appendix:English catenative verbs

##### Conjugation

$^†$ Archaic or obsolete.

##### Alternative forms

* remembre (obsolete)

##### Synonyms

* recall
* reminisce
* retrieve

##### Derived terms

* disremember
* for as long as one can remember
* I can't remember the last time
* misremember
* Pepperidge Farm remembers
* rememberer
* remember like it was yesterday
* remembrance

##### Descendants

* Sranan Tongo: memre

##### Translations

Abkhaz: агәа́лашәара (agʷálaŝʷara)
Aklanon: dumdum
Albanian: kujtoj (sq)
American Sign Language: OpenA@Sfhead OpenA@BackThumb-ThumbAcross-OpenA@CenterChesthigh-ThumbAcross
Arabic: تَذَكَّرَ (taḏakkara)
Hijazi Arabic: اتذكَّر (atḏakkar, atzakkar)
Moroccan Arabic: عقل (ʕqal)
Armenian: հիշել (hy) (hišel)
Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܕܵܟ݂ܹܪ (daḳer)
Asturian: acordar, recordar
Avar: ракӏалда букӏине (rakʼalda bukʼine)
Azerbaijani: xatırlamaq (az), yadında saxlamaq, yadında olmaq
Belarusian: (still have memories) памята́ць impf (pamjatácʹ), по́мніць impf (pómnicʹ); (recall, try to remember) паміна́ць impf (paminácʹ); памяну́ць pf (pamjanúcʹ)
Belizean Creole: memba
Bengali: মনে করা (bn) (mone kora), মনে পড়া (bn) (mone poṛa)
Bulgarian: спо́мням си (bg) impf (spómnjam si), спо́мня си (bg) pf (spómnja si)
Burmese: မှတ်မိ (my) (hmatmi.)
Catalan: recordar (ca), recordar-se, rememorar (ca)
Chechen: please add this translation if you can
Cherokee: ᎠᏅᏓᏗᏍᏗ (anvdadisdi), ᎠᏅᏓᏗᎠ (anvdadia)
Chichewa: -kumbuka
Chinese:
Cantonese: 記得 / 记得 (gei$^3$ dak$^1$)
Dungan: җинян (žini͡an), җи (ži)
Hakka: 記得 / 记得 (ki-tet)
Hokkien: 記得 / 记得 (kì-tit), 會記得 / 会记得 (ē-kì-tit, ōe-kì-tit)
Mandarin: 記得 / 记得 (zh) (jìde), 記憶 / 记忆 (zh) (jìyì), 回憶 / 回忆 (zh) (huíyì)
Wu: 記得 / 记得 ($^5$ci-teq)
Chuukese: chechemeni
Corsican: ricurdà (co)
Czech: pamatovat si (cs) impf, zapamatovat si pf
Dalmatian: racuardar
Danish: huske (da), erindre
Dutch: zich herinneren (nl), gedenken (nl)
Egyptian: (sḫꜣj)
Erzya: мельсэ кирдемс (melsë kirdems), мельсэ аштемс (melsë aštems), мельсэ улемс (melsë ulems)
Esperanto: rememori
Estonian: mäletama
Faroese: minnast
Finnish: muistaa (fi)
French: se rappeler (fr), se souvenir (fr), se remémorer (fr)
Friulian: ricuardâ
Galician: lembrar (gl), estremuñar, retautivar
Georgian: ხსოვნა (xsovna)
German: sich erinnern (de)
Gothic: 𐌲𐌰𐌼𐌿𐌽𐌰𐌽 (gamunan)
Greek: θυμάμαι (el) (thymámai)
Ancient: μιμνήσκομαι (mimnḗskomai), μνημονεύω (mnēmoneúō)
Guaraní: mandu'a
Gujarati: please add this translation if you can
Hebrew: זָכַר (he) (zakhár), נזכר (he) (nizkár)
Hindi: स्मरण रखना (smaraṇ rakhnā)
Hungarian: emlékszik (hu), emlékezik (hu) (rare)
Icelandic: muna (is)
Indonesian: ingat (id)
Ingrian: muistaa
Interlingua: memorar
Irish: is cuimhin le, cuimhne a bheith agat ar, cuimhnigh ar
Istriot: racurdà
Italian: ricordare (it), rammentare (it), rammemorare, rimembrare (it)
Japanese: 思い出す (ja) (おもいだす, omoidasu), 覚える (ja) (おぼえる, oboeru), 記憶する (ja) (きおくする, kioku suru)
Javanese: éling
Kabuverdianu: lenbra
Kazakh: есте сақтау (este saqtau), еске алу (eske alu)
Khmer: ចាំ (km) (cam), ចំណាំ (km) (cɑmnam)
Konkani: ಉಡ್ಗಾಸ್ ಆಸ್ಚೆ (uḍgās āsce), ಉಡ್ಗಾಸ್ ಕರ್ಚೆ (uḍgās karce), उग्डास येव्चे (ugḍās yevce)
Korean: 기억하다 (ko) (gieokhada)
Kurdish:
Central Kurdish: لەبیربوون (lebîrbûn), ھێنانە یاد (hênane yad)
Kyrgyz: эсте тутуу (este tutuu), унутпоо (ky) (unutpoo)
Ladino: akodrar, arrekodrar, membrar
Lao: ຈື່ຈຳ (chư̄ cham), ຈຳ (cham), ຈົດຈຳ (chot cham), ຫວນຄຶດ (wan khưt), ຫວນນຶກ (wan nưk)
Latin: meminī, reminiscor, recordor, memoror, teneō (la)
Latvian: atminēties, atcerēties
Ligurian: aregordâ
Lithuanian: prisiminti (lt), atsiminti (lt)
Lombard: ricordà (lmo)
Macedonian: се сеќава impf (se seḱava), се сети pf (se seti)
Maltese: ftakar
Maore Comorian: unahana
Maori: mahara, mahara-tia
Marathi: आठवणे (mr) (āṭhavṇe)
Mongolian:
Cyrillic: санах (mn) (sanax)
Nahuatl: ilnamiqui
Ngarrindjeri: porun
Northern Sami: muitit
Norwegian:
Bokmål: huske (no)
Occitan: remembrar (oc)
Old English: ġemunan
Old French: sovenir, remembrer
Old Turkic: 𐰇 (ü /⁠ö-⁠/)
Oromo: yaadachuu
Osage: kisúðe
Ossetian: зӕрдыл дарын (zærdyl daryn)
Ottoman Turkish: آڭمق (anmak)
Persian: به یاد آوردن (be yâd âvardan), یاد آمدن (fa) (yâd âmadan), یاد کردن (fa) (yâd kardan)
Pipil: -elnamiki, -elnamiqui
Polish: pamiętać (pl) impf, zapamiętać (pl) pf
Portuguese: lembrar-se, recordar-se
Quechua: yuyay (qu), yarpay
Romanian: aminti (ro), își aduce aminte, ține minte
Russian: по́мнить (ru) impf (pómnitʹ) (still have memories); вспомина́ть (ru) impf (vspominátʹ), вспо́мнить (ru) pf (vspómnitʹ) (recall, try to remember)
Sanskrit: स्मरति (smárati)
Scottish Gaelic: cuimhnich, meòraich, bi cuimhne aig
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: сећати се impf, сјећати се impf, , сетити се pf, сјетити се pf
Latin: sećati se (sh) impf, sjećati se impf, setiti se (sh) pf, sjetiti se (sh) pf
Sicilian: ricurdari (scn), arricurdari (scn), rigurdari (scn), arrigurdari (scn)
Slovak: pamätať si impf, spomenúť si pf
Slovene: spominjati se impf, spomniti se pf
Sorbian:
Lower Sorbian: dopominaś se impf, dopomnjeś se pf
Southern Altai: эстеер (esteer)
Spanish: acordarse de, recordar (es), rememorar (es), remembrar (es), arrecordarse de (obsolescent, Americanism), memorar (es)
Sranan Tongo: memre
Swahili: -kumbuka (sw)
Swedish: komma ihåg (sv), minnas (sv)
Tagalog: tandaan, alalahanin (tl)
Tajik: дар хотир доштан (dar xotir doštan), ба ёд овардан (ba yod ovardan)
Tausug: tumtum
Telugu: గుర్తుండు (gurtuṇḍu)
Thai: จำได้, จำ (th) (jam), จดจำ (th) (jòt-jam), จำไว้
Tibetan: དྲན (dran)
Turkish: hatırlamak (tr), anımsamak (tr)
Turkmen: ýaada salmak, ýatlamak
Tuvan: сактыр (saktır), сактып келир (saktıp kelir), сактып алыр (saktıp alır)
Ugaritic: 𐎏𐎋𐎗 (ḏkr)
Ukrainian: пам'ята́ти impf (pamʺjatáty), запам'ята́ти pf (zapamʺjatáty)
Urdu: یاد کرنا (yād karnā)
Uyghur: ئەسلىمەك (eslimek), يادقا ئالماق (yadqa almaq), ئېسىگە ئالماق (ësige almaq)
Uzbek: eslamoq (uz), yodda tutmoq
Venetan: regordar, regordàr, recordar, recordàr
Vietnamese: nhớ (vi)
Volapük: please add this translation if you can
Walloon: si rmimbrer (wa), si sovni (wa), si rsovni (wa), si rapler (wa), si rapinser (wa), ratoumer (with preposition "so")
Welsh: cofio (cy)
Yiddish: געדענקען (gedenken) :
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#### See also

* recollect
* recollection
* remind

### Etymology 2

From re- +‎ member.

#### Verb

remember (third-person singular simple present remembers, present participle remembering, simple past and past participle remembered)
* (rare) Alternative form of re-member
** 1982, Book Review Digest, volume 78, page 824:knit 'this scattered corn into one mutual sheaf, / these broken limbs again into one body' - in other words, how to resurrect the dismembered god, to remember Osiris. Yet the only body made whole in these expert, lowering poems is the body of this death.
** 2008, Jan Assmann, Of God and Gods: Egypt, Israel, and the Rise of Monotheism, page 42:According to these mysteries, the rites of fashioning or remembering Osiris came to be interpreted as remembering Egypt. Egypt was the body of Osiris, dismembered and scattered across the land.
** 2010, Sandra Ingerman, Medicine for the Earth, page 100:She remembered Osiris by putting his pieces back together and mating with him one last time, conceiving Horus, who eventually avenged his father's death.
** 2012, Roy Melvyn, The Lost Writings of Wu Hsin: Pointers to Non Duality in Five Volumes, Lulu Press, Inc, →ISBN:To dismember is to tear apart; / To re-member is to put back together. / The old must be dismembered / So that which was prior to it / May be remembered. / Therefore, to re-mind is / To dismember and then re-member.

##### Alternative forms

* re-member

### Anagrams

* remembre

## Portuguese
### Etymology

From English remember.

### Noun

remember m (plural remembers)
* (informal) The act of having sex with one's ex.
    E aí, soube que você encontrou a Andreia. Rolou um remember?What's up, I heard you met up with Andreia. Did you hook up?