English [edit]
Alternative forms [edit]
Pronunciation [edit]
- IPA: /ˈmɛm.əɹˌaɪ̯z/, X-SAMPA: /"mEm@%raIz/
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- Hyphenation: mem‧or‧ize
memorize (third-person singular simple present memorizes, present participle memorizing, simple past and past participle memorized)
- to learn by heart, commit to memory
- 2009, A Practical Study of Argument (ISBN 0495603406), page 123:
- Many years ago there was a rumor that a basketball star (Jerry Lucas of the New York Knicks) had memorized the entire Manhattan phone book.
- 2009, Hailey Abbott, The Perfect Boy (ISBN 006197157X), page 258:
- She was so used to the way he moved—they'd been practicing together for years, and she'd memorized the way his body worked.
Derived terms [edit]
Translations [edit]
to commit to memory, to learn by heart
- Arabic: حفظ (ar) (ḥafiḏa)
- Belarusian: запамінаць (be) (zapaminácʹ)
- Bulgarian: запаметявам (bg) (zapametjávam)
- Catalan: memoritzar (ca)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 記住 (cmn), 记住 (cmn) (jìzhù), 記憶 (cmn), 记忆 (cmn) (jìyì)
- Czech: memorovat (cs)
- Dutch: memoriseren (nl), uit het hoofd leren (nl)
- Finnish: opetella ulkoa (fi), painaa muistiin (fi)
- French: mémoriser (fr), apprendre par cœur (fr)
- German: sich einprägen (de) (sich in the dative case), auswendig lernen (de)
- Hebrew: לשנן (he) (leshanen)
- Hungarian: megjegyez (hu)
- Italian: memorizzare (it), imparare a memoria (it)
- Japanese: 記憶する (ja) (きおくする, kioku suru), 覚える (ja) (おぼえる, oboeru), 暗記する (ja) (あんきする, anki suru)
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- Korean: 기억하다 (ko) (gieok-hada), 암기하다 (ko) (amgi-hada)
- Kurdish: ji ber kirin (ku), ezber kirin (ku), لهبهرکردن (ku)
- Polish: zapamiętać (pl), nauczyć się na pamięć (pl)
- Portuguese: decorar (pt), memorizar (pt), saber de cor (pt)
- Romanian: memoriza (ro)
- Russian: запоминать (ru) (zapominátʹ), запомнить (ru) (zapómnitʹ) pf.; выучивать (ru) (vyúčivatʹ) impf., выучить (ru) (výučitʹ) pf.; заучивать наизусть (zaúčivatʹ naizústʹ) impf., заучить наизусть (zaúčítʹ naizústʹ) pf. (to learn by heart)
- Scottish Gaelic: meòraich (gd)
- Serbo-Croatian: pȃmtiti (sh), naùčiti nȁpamēt (sh)
- Slovak: zapamätať (sk), naučiť sa naspamäť (sk)
- Slovene: zapomniti (sl)
- Spanish: aprender de memoria (es), memorizar (es)
- Swedish: lära sig utantill (sv), memorera (sv), lägga på minnet (sv)
- Ukrainian: запам'ятовувати (uk) (zapam'jatóvuvaty)
- Vietnamese: ghi nhớ (vi), ghi chép (vi)
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Portuguese [edit]
memorize
- first-person singular present subjunctive of memorizar
- third-person singular present subjunctive of memorizar
- first-person singular imperative of memorizar
- third-person singular imperative of memorizar
