to remind someone to
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1.1
- phrasal verb
:
recordar a alguien que
- Can you remind me to pick up groceries after work?
- remind students to
- need to be reminded
- constantly remind students to
Examples
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A taxi driver is likely to remind you to fasten your seat belt.
Academic text (2008) -
Each morning before work, George reminds himself to buy seed to fill the birdhouse.
Fiction book (1997) -
- Just want to remind you to be safe.
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I'll remind you when to go.
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Remind me to send him a note.
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- Uh, Robbie, remind me to talk about this with your mother later.
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A few days before discharge, the social worker reminded them to expect the researcher's call two months later.
Academic text (2008) -
Still others wrote to their children, reminding them to bring home all their homework.
Academic text (2012) -
I write tutoring times on the board to remind students to attend sessions.
Academic text (2015) -
Remind me not to take my honeymoon at Niagara Falls.
Synonyms
∞
1.0
To make someone remember something they need to do or something from the past
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3.2
To give a signal that tells someone when to speak or act
How Strong
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly compositional: 'remind' (make someone recall) combined with 'someone' and the infinitival 'to' (introducing the action) yields 'tell someone so they do not forget to do something.' This verb + object + to-infinitive pattern is a regular, cross-linguistically common construction and should be transparent to a B1 learner who knows the constituent words.
Etymology
The phrase remind someone to comes from a simple picture: a friend taps your shoulder and says 'remember to...' so you do not forget. That's why it means 'to tell someone not to forget to do something'.