How to say “remember” in 39 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.
It is commonest in Icelandic, where myndi is the 137th most used word.
- Afrikaans onthou to remember, to keep in mind #189
- Albanian kujtova to recall, remember #1,175
- Arabic تذكر to remember, to bear in mind #376
- Basque oroitu to remember, to recall #1,413
- Bosnian sjetiti to remember #1,939
- Bulgarian помня to remember #622
- Catalan recordes to remember, to recollect, to recall #539
- Chinese 想起 to remember; to recall; to think of #429
- Croatian sjetiti to remember #1,271
- Czech pamatovat to remember #2,014
- Danish huske to remember #305
- Dutch onthouden to keep in mind, to remember #2,352
- English funeral A ceremony to honor and remember a deceased… #1,809
- Esperanto memoras to remember #293
- Finnish muistatko to remember, recall, recollect #566
- French souviens to remember #483
- Galician lembro to remember #614
- Georgian მახსოვს to remember #267
- German dachte not to forget; to remember #200
- Greek θυμάσαι I remember #375
- Hungarian emlékszel to remember #439
- Icelandic myndi to remember #137
- Indonesian ingat to remember #215
- Italian ricordo to remember, to recall, to recollect #538
- Latvian atceries to remember #335
- Lithuanian atsiminti to remember #2,238
- Macedonian запомни to remember #1,201
- Malay ingat to remember #169
- Malayalam ഓർക്കുക to think, remember #1,033
- Norwegian husk to remember #734
- Polish pamiętasz to remember #414
- Portuguese lembro to remember #918
- Russian вспомнить to remember, to recall, to recollect #2,032
- Slovak pamätať to remember #1,042
- Slovenian spomniti to remember #776
- Spanish recuerdo to remember, to recollect #544
- Swedish minns to remember, to recall #294
- Tagalog alalahanin to remember; to recall #564
- Vietnamese nhớ to remember #215
Knowing the word is the easy half.
Using it with someone who speaks the language is the half that sticks.