bear in mind

English

WOTD – 13 November 2023

Alternative forms

keep in mind

Etymology

From bear (“to carry; to hold”) + in mind.^[1] First attested in the first half of 1500s.^[2]

Pronunciation

enPR: bâr′ ĭn mīnd′
(Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˌbɛə̯ ɪn ˈmaɪ̯nd/, /ˌbɛː-/
(General American) IPA^(key): /ˌbeɹ ɪn ˈmaɪ̯nd/, /ˌbɛɹ-/
(Canada) IPA^(key): /ˌbɛɹ ɪn ˈmaɪ̯nd/, /-ˈmʌɪ̯nd/
(General Australian) IPA^(key): /ˌbeː ɪn ˈmɑe̯nd/
Audio (General Australian): (file)
(New Zealand) IPA^(key): /ˌbiə̯ ən ˈmaɪ̯nd/, /ˌbeə̯-/
(Scotland) IPA^(key): /ˌbeɹ ɪn ˈmaɪ̯nd/, /-ˈmʌi̯nd/, /-ˈməi̯nd/
(India) IPA^(key): /ˌbɛːʳ ɪn ˈmajnd/
Hyphenation: bear in mind

Verb

bear in mind (third-person singular simple present bears in mind, present participle bearing in mind, simple past bore in mind or (archaic) bare in mind, past participle borne in mind or (colloquial) bore in mind or (see bear § Usage notes) born in mind)

(transitive, idiomatic) To hold (something) in the memory; to remember; also, to be mindful of or pay attention to (something); to consider; to note.
Synonyms: keep in mind; see also Thesaurus:remember

Bear in mind that I’m not as young as I was, so I can’t walk as fast as you.
- For quotations using this term, see Citations:bear in mind.

Related terms

Translations

to hold (something) in the memory — see also remember

Arabic: ذَكَرَ (ar) (ḏakara), حَفِظَ (ḥafiẓa), اِذَّكَرَ (iḏḏakara), تَذَكَّرَ (taḏakkara)
Burmese: ချပ် (my) (hkyap)
Catalan: tenir present
Chinese:
Mandarin: 謹記 / 谨记 (zh) (jǐnjì) (honorific), 記住 / 记住 (zh) (jìzhù), 注意 (zh) (zhùyì)
Czech: mít na paměti
Danish: mærke
Dutch: onthouden (nl), rekening houden met
Finnish: pitää mielessä
French: garder à l'esprit, se rappeler (fr)
Galician: ter en conta, ter presente
German: beachten (de), berücksichtigen (de), in Betracht ziehen (de), vergegenwärtigen (de)
Gothic: 𐌲𐌰𐌼𐌿𐌽𐌰𐌽 (gamunan)
Hungarian: észben tart (hu)
Ingrian: pittää meelees
Italian: considerare (it), tenere conto, tenere presente
Japanese: 服膺する (ふくようする, fukuyō suru), 気に留める (ja) (きにとめる, ki ni tomeru), 心掛ける (ja) (こころがける, kokorogakeru), 心に掛ける (こころにかける, kokoro ni kakeru), 心に留める (kokoro ni tomeru), 心する (こころする, kokorosuru), 念頭に置く (ねんとうにおく, nentō ni oku), 覚えておく (ja) (oboete oku)
Kashmiri: سَرُن (sarun)
Latin: teneo (la)
Macedonian: имај предвид (imaj predvid), запомни (zapomni), земе предвид (zeme predvid)
Manchu: ᡝᠵᡝᠮᠪᡳ (ejembi)
Middle English: compassen (rare)
Old English: beþenċan
Polish: mieć na uwadze (pl), pamiętać (pl), patrzeć (pl) impf (informal), zważać (pl) impf, zważyć (pl) pf
Portuguese: ter em mente, ter presente
Russian: име́ть в виду́ (ru) (imétʹ v vidú), по́мнить (ru) (pómnitʹ)
Sanskrit: धरति (sa) (dharati)
Spanish: tener en cuenta, tener en mente, tener presente, en atención a (preposition), atento a (preposition, p. us.)
Thai: จำ (th) (jam), จำนอง (th) (jam-nɔɔng) (archaic), ว่า (th) (wâa)
Turkish: aklında tutmak (tr)
Ukrainian: ма́ти на ува́зі (uk) impf (máty na uvázi)

to be mindful of or pay attention to (something) — see consider,‎ note

References

^ Compare “to have (also bear, keep, hold, etc.)” under “mind, n.¹”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, September 2023.
^ Christine Ammer (2013), “bear in mind”, in American Heritage Dictionary of Idioms, second edition, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, →ISBN, page 32, column 1.