Definition

1. Verb:
   • To remember again / to recall: To bring back into one's mind a memory, fact, or experience that had been forgotten or not thought about for a time.
   • To recollect: To consciously and deliberately retrieve past events or information from memory.

Usage Examples

• Verb:
  • Tôi đột nhiên nhớ lại tên của cô ấy. (I suddenly remembered her name.)
  • Bà tôi thích nhớ lại những kỷ niệm cũ. (My grandmother likes to recall old memories.)
  • Anh ấy cố gắng nhớ lại những gì đã xảy ra tối qua. (He tried to recollect what happened last night.)

Advanced Usage

• The verb often implies a conscious, sometimes effortful, act of retrieving a specific memory, as opposed to a general feeling of remembering ("nhớ").
• It can be used in imperative constructions to prompt someone to try and remember.
  • Hãy nhớ lại xem bạn đã để chìa khóa ở đâu. (Try to remember where you left the keys.)

Variants and Related Words

• Nhớ (v): to remember, to miss. This is the base verb, indicating the state of having something in memory or feeling longing.
• Hồi tưởng (v): to reminisce, to look back (often in a detailed, narrative way). This is a more formal synonym.

Synonyms

• Recall: To bring a fact, event, or feeling back into one's mind.
• Recollect: To succeed in remembering something.
• Reminisce: To indulge in enjoyable recollection of past events (often with a nostalgic tone).

Related Idioms and Phrases

• Nhớ lại như in: To remember vividly, as if printed in one's mind.
  • Tôi vẫn nhớ lại như in ngày đầu tiên đi học. (I still remember my first day of school as if it were printed in my mind.)
• Nhớ lại mới biết: Used to express realization upon remembering.
  • Nhớ lại mới biết hồi đó mình ngây thơ thế nào. (Now that I think back, I realize how naive I was back then.)

1. Reminisce
   • Nhớ lại thời thơ ấu
     To reminisce about one's tender age