Verb
einfallen
to occur to someone; to come to mind
B1
rank #3,581
Meanings
Verb
- to occur to someone; to come to mind
- for there to be a memory [with dative ‘to someone’] (idiomatically translated by English remember with the dative object as the subject)
- to invade
- to collapse, to fall in
In a sentence
Sie lassen sich besser schnell etwas einfallen!
You'd better come up with something fast.
Forms
infinitive
einfallen
he/she/it
fällt ein
simple past
fiel ein
perfect
ist eingefallen
takes in + Akkusativ