по́мнить
to remember
Я по́мню э́тот день
I remember that day.
Usage info
A note before diving in: these two are not a true aspectual pair. По́мнить has no perfective counterpart — it describes a state, not an action. Вспо́мнить is the perfective of вспомина́ть. They are paired here because they are semantically close and frequently confused.
По́мнить is a stative verb. It describes an ongoing condition — the fact that something exists in your memory right now. Because it's a state rather than a process or event, it has no perfective and resists progressive readings.
Examples
Conjugation
| Present | Future | |
|---|---|---|
| я | по́мню | бу́ду по́мнить |
| ты | по́мнишь | бу́дешь по́мнить |
| он/она́/оно́ | по́мнит | бу́дет по́мнить |
| мы | по́мним | бу́дем по́мнить |
| вы | по́мните | бу́дете по́мнить |
| они́ | по́мнят | бу́дут по́мнить |
| Imperative | |
|---|---|
| ты | по́мни |
| вы | по́мните |
| Past | |
|---|---|
| masculine | по́мнил |
| feminine | по́мнила |
| neuter | по́мнило |
| plural | по́мнили |
Participles
| Active present | remembering, mindful, keeping in mind | |
|---|---|---|
| Active past | remembering, who remembered, having remembered | |
| Passive present | remembered, memorable | |
| Passive past | crumpled, rumpled, creased | |
| Gerund present | по́мня | while doing (present) |
| Gerund past | помнив помнивши | while doing (past) |
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haunter1781 edited translation 3 days ago.
haunter1781 edited usage info 3 days ago.
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