minnas

In a sentence

• Jag minns den gången vi besökte mormor på landet.

  I remember the time we visited grandmother in the countryside.

  Here, 'minnas' is used to express recalling a specific event from memory.

• Kan du minnas vad vi pratade om igår?

  Can you remember what we talked about yesterday?

  In this case, 'minnas' is used interrogatively to check for memory recall of a past conversation.

• Han försöker minnas hur man löser den där matematiska ekvationen.

  He is trying to remember how to solve that mathematical equation.

  Here, 'minnas' shows an active attempt to retrieve knowledge stored in memory.