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Verb

 * 1) to come to mind, spring to mind, cross one's mind, occur  to come or be presented to the mind

Usage notes

 * Normally used in the third person, since the thing that comes to mind is the subject of the sentence.
 * There are two alternative ways to indicate the person to whom something occurs (both are shown in the usage examples above):
 * as an adverbial in the adessive or allative case
 * as a genitive attribute defining the word . If the person is indicated with a personal pronoun, a possessive suffix must be added to '. The personal pronoun may be omitted in first and second person: