Meaning

2 senses
  1. (transitive)To make mention of; to speak of; to refer to; to name; to specify

    He happened to mention your name to me.

    erwähnen

    упомина́тьupominátʹ, упомяну́тьupomjanútʹ

    зга́дуватиzháduvaty, згада́тиzhadáty, посила́тисяposylátysja

    make mention of

  2. To utter a word or expression in order to refer to the expression itself, as opposed to its usual referent.

Examples

945 sentences
  1. Tom didn't mention who he'd met.

    Том не згадував, кого зустрів. — deniko

  2. You never mentioned Tom was here.

    Ти ніколи не згадував, що там був Том. — deniko

  3. Tom didn't mention Mary at all.

    Том узагалі не згадував Мері. — deniko

    ruТом вообще не упоминал о Мэри. — odexed

    deTom hat Mary überhaupt nicht erwähnt. — Kuraimegami

  4. I won't ever mention this again.

    Я більше ніколи про це не говоритиму. — bicolino34

    ruЯ никогда больше об этом не упомяну. — AntonKhorev

    deIch werde es nie wieder erwähnen. — christian42

  5. I didn't mention that to Tom.

    Я не згадував цього Тому. — deniko

Translations

9 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
to make a short reference to something:
Русский
By meaning 1
to make a short reference to something:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
to make a short reference to something:

Origin

Inherited from Middle English mencioun, mention, from Old French mention, from Latin menti

Inherited from Middle English mencioun, mention, from Old French mention, from Latin mentiōnem, accusative of mentiō (“a mention, calling to mind”).

Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0 · source

Forms

mentions, mentioning, mentioned, mentioned
Base formmention · to mention
3rd person singularmentions
Present participlementioning
Past simplementioned
Past participlementioned

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theymention
he, she, itmentions

Past simpleLesson

all personsmentioned

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave mentioned
he, she, ithas mentioned

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill mention

Synonyms

14 synonyms

Antonyms

4 antonyms

Word family

6 related words

Collocations

12 patterns
  • never mentioned
  • forgot to mention
  • mentioned your name
  • not to mention
  • mentioned this before
  • mention anything about
  • to mention that
  • mention that to
  • mentioned in the
  • did someone mention
  • never mentioned that
  • mention this to

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
mention — meaning, examples, forms, synonyms | Krumeto