Narratives about the phenomena of personal or social life, seen and passed through the prism of perception of the author who put them on paper, are called memories. Often they are also associated with diaries, although there is no element of chronology. A memory is an event or part of the past that does not affect reality and is kept only “for oneself”. They can be contrasted with memoirs, which, in fact, are the same, only written for the public. Consider the interpretation, features of the use and declension of the word in more detail.
"Memory": the meaning of the word
Linguists distinguish up to two main meanings. In general vocabulary, you can often see its use in the plural. "Memories", the meaning of which is reduced to the archives of memory and elements of literary activity, is also associated with the past, the analysis of past events and their influence on the present (in psychology). Consider two main interpretations.
In the dictionary of D. N. Ushakova:
1. mental reproductionwhat is stored in memory.
Examples:
Memories of childhood affect the rest of a person's life and behavior.
Pleasant memories give strength to new achievements.
2. In the plural, the word denotes a literary work, which describes the events that the author was an eyewitness to. Such a presentation is also called memoirs or notes.
Examples:
The war story is based on the memories of a direct participant in the hostilities.
Future Memories is based on the book Testaments of Youth by Vera Brittain.
3. In colloquial speech, you can hear the joking expression: “One memory remains,” when the speaker implies that nothing else has survived, everything has disappeared without a trace.
Examples:
His high spirits is but a memory.
From the former beauty of the girl there are only memories.
Morphological and syntactic features
The word "memory" is a neuter noun, inanimate, of the 2nd declension. Prefix: re-; suffixes: -a-ni; root: -remember-; ending: -e. According to the classification of A. A. Zaliznyak, it belongs to the type of declension 7a.
Singular number:
| Name | memories |
| R. | memories |
| D. | remembrance |
| V. | memories |
| TV. | memories |
| Ex. | memories |
Plural:
| Name | memories |
| R. | memories |
| D. | memories |
| V. | memories |
| TV. | memories |
| Ex. | memories |
Synonyms
Similar words that can replace "memory" in certain contexts are: recall, memory, retrospection, note, memoir, fiction, literature, remembrance, book. Synonyms enable the wide use of the word / concept in colloquial and written speech. They also reveal more fully the intricacies of its meaning.
Phraseological units and set phrases
As mentioned above, colloquial expressions refer to "only a memory remains." It denotes the absence of any quality or item in the present.
Memory can be:
- scary/painful/heavy/excruciating;
- fun/nice/sweet/happy/warm/wonderful;
- old/last/forgotten/first/new/fresh.
Memory can: flash/emerge/arise/appear/taunt/pierce/slip away.
Him: summoned/prompted/returned/chased/awakened/recalled/cut off.
Examples:
Seeing her childhood pictures brings back memories.
Fresh memories erased the events of the past.
Remembrance is not only an element of memory, but also a kind of literary work. The word is most often used in general vocabulary. Then come the fields of medicine, psychology and psychoanalysis.
