je souvenais

remembered

→ souvenir
verb · 1st-person singular / 2nd-person singular, imperfect tense Rare #48,996
remembered Used with the reflexive pronoun: se souvenir de quelque chose means “to remember something.”
FR: Je me souvenais de son nom.
EN: I remembered his name.
Conjugation of souvenir
Indicative imperfect
SingularPlural
First souvenais —
Second souvenais —
Third souvenait —

Moi, je ne m'en souvenais pas mais maman me l'a raconté.

I didn't remember it, but Mom told me about it.

— Le Voyage de Chihiro (2001)

Je ne m’en souvenais pas du tout, mais c’était arrivé.

I didn’t remember it at all, but it had happened.

Je m'en souvenais.

I remembered it.

Tu sais pourquoi tu ne te souvenais pas de ce jour-là ?

Do you know why you didn't remember that day?

— Old Boy (2003)