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[wolfie-18.livejournal.com]

Quick request: May someone explain the difference between: запомниться, напомнить, помнить, вспомнить, and I think (can't recall) that I've seen a впомнить.

And what would be the meaning of "Это вам запомнится легко?"

And: Can someone tell me some literature/music one would have read in their first/second year Russian class? I was flipping through a textbook at a college, and I saw Телефон, and I remember watching a video of Middlebury Russian Language Session that the guy was reading the poem to his students. I would just hate to have missed out on anything Russian-identifying because I had a tutor instead.

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[oryx_and_crake]

Я запомнил эту книгу vs. Эта книга мне запомнилась

Those two are more or less interchangeable, but the second one rather implies that there was something special about the book that made me remember it.

"Это вам запомнится легко" - It will be easy for you to remember.

Напомнить - to remind
Помнить - to remember
Вспомнить - to recall

there is no впомнить (could be a typo)

[gordin.livejournal.com]

запомниться - means to remain in one's memory
напомнить (напоминать) - to remind
помнить - to remember
вспомнить - to recall
впомнить is definitely a mistake, there's no such word. ;)


The meaning of the phrase is "You'll memorize it quickly"
The exact (word-by-word) translation is 'This will be memorized by you very easily'


The last one - i'm not a good advisor here. ;)

[temcat.livejournal.com]

запомниться is said about the thing that is remembered, not about the one who remembers; запомниться = to remain in memory

это вам запомнится легко = вам будет легко это запомнить = it will be easy for you to remember this

напомнить = remind

помнить and вспомнить mean both "to remember", but the former is imperfective and the latter is perfective.

Впомнить is not a word, but there is a colloquial verb упомнить which means "to hold in memory" or "to remember" specifically when there is talk about remembering a lot of things, for example: всю эту массу подробностей упомнить просто невозможно.

[wolfie-18.livejournal.com]

Isn't the imperfective form of вспомнить - вспоминать?

[barhana.livejournal.com]

www.lingvo.ru would be a helpfull one.

[temcat.livejournal.com]

OK, to not not confuse anyone, let's just agree that вспомнить is "to recall" :-)

[cema.livejournal.com]

Only to an extent. It's notorious for bad translation.

[yozhevich.livejournal.com]

It seems to me that вспоминать is usually better translated into English as "to reminisce" or something equivalent. I think вспомнить can mean both "to reminisce" in a perfective situation and to remember something forgotten. Could a native Russian please clarify?

[welgar.livejournal.com]

Exactly, although the first case is probably more usual.

Мы с ней вспоминали школьные годы = She and I were reminiscing school years
Я вспоминаю, куда положил ключи = I'm trying to recall where I have put the keys

[noser.livejournal.com]

It is. Помнить doesn't have a perfective form (as far as I remember at least).