How to say “remember” in 39 different languages
Every one of these is a word that turns up in ordinary speech, not a dictionary curiosity — the number beside it is where it ranks in that language.
- recuerdo/reˈkweɾdo/ Spanish
- вспомнить[ˈfspomnʲɪtʲ] Russian
- تذكر/ta.ðak.ka.ra/ Arabic
- 想起/ɕi̯ɑŋ²¹⁴⁻³⁵ t͡ɕʰi²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/ Chinese
- მახსოვს[mäχso̞fs] Georgian
“remember” in Spanish: recuerdo · French: souviens · German: dachte · Italian: ricordo · Portuguese: lembro · Chinese: 想起 · Russian: вспомнить · Arabic: تذكر
It is commonest in Icelandic, where myndi is the 137th most used word.
Remember in other languages, A to Z
- Afrikaans onthou/ɔntˈɦœu̯/ to remember, to keep in mind #189
- Albanian kujtova/kujtɔva/ to recall, remember #1,175
- Arabic تذكر/ta.ðak.ka.ra/ to remember, to bear in mind #376
- Basque oroitu/oɾoi̯tu/ to remember, to recall #1,413
- Bosnian sjetiti/sjêtiti/ to remember #1,939
- Bulgarian помня[ˈpɔmnʲɐ] to remember #622
- Catalan recordes/rəˈkɔrðəs/ to remember, to recollect, to recall #539
- Chinese 想起/ɕi̯ɑŋ²¹⁴⁻³⁵ t͡ɕʰi²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/ to remember; to recall; to think of #429
- Croatian sjetiti/sjêtiti/ to remember #1,271
- Czech pamatovat[ˈpamatovat] to remember #2,014
- Danish huske[ˈhusɡ̊ə] to remember #305
- Dutch onthouden/ˌɔntˈɦɑu̯.də(n)/ to keep in mind, to remember #2,352
- English funeral/ˈfju.nəɹ.əl/ A ceremony to honor and remember a deceased… #1,809
- Esperanto memoras/meˈmoras/ to remember #293
- Finnish muistatko/ˈmuistatko/ to remember, recall, recollect #566
- French souviens/suˈvjɛ̃/ to remember #483
- Galician lembro/ˈlembɾo/ to remember #614
- Georgian მახსოვს[mäχso̞fs] to remember #267
- German dachte/ˈdaxtə/ not to forget; to remember #200
- Greek θυμάσαι/θiˈmase/ I remember #375
- Hungarian emlékszel[ˈɛmleːksɛl] to remember #439
- Icelandic myndi/ˈmɪntɪ/ to remember #137
- Indonesian ingat/ˈiŋat/ to remember #215
- Italian ricordo/riˈkɔr.do/ to remember, to recall, to recollect #538
- Latvian atceries/ˈatt͡series/ to remember #335
- Lithuanian atsiminti[ɐt͡sʲɪ²ˈmʲɪnʲˑtʲɪ] to remember #2,238
- Macedonian запомни[ˈzapɔmni] to remember #1,201
- Malay ingat/ˈiŋat/ to remember #169
- Malayalam ഓർക്കുക/oːrkkuɡɐ/ to think, remember #1,033
- Norwegian husk/ˈhʉsk/ to remember #734
- Polish pamiętasz/paˈmjɛn.taʂ/ to remember #414
- Portuguese lembro/ˈlẽ.bɾu/ to remember #918
- Russian вспомнить[ˈfspomnʲɪtʲ] to remember, to recall, to recollect #2,032
- Slovak pamätať/pamætac/ to remember #1,042
- Slovenian spomniti/spóːmniti/ to remember #776
- Spanish recuerdo/reˈkweɾdo/ to remember, to recollect #544
- Swedish minns/ˈmɪns/ to remember, to recall #294
- Tagalog alalahanin/ʔalalaˈhanin/ to remember; to recall #564
- Vietnamese nhớ[ɲəː˧˦] to remember #215
The speaker reads the word in the voice the LangX app uses for that language — synthesised, not a recording of a native speaker, so treat it as a guide. A row without a button has no reading we are free to use, or none we trust, yet. Voices for Catalan (upc_ona (ca_ES), CC BY-SA 4.0), Slovenian (artur (sl_SI), CC BY 4.0) and Vietnamese (vais1000 (vi_VN), CC BY 4.0).
Knowing the word is the easy half.
Using it with someone who speaks the language is the half that sticks.