To refresh something

[EnFr.]

Hello there,

I am hoping you can help me. I have a question about the different sentences I can use when I want to say that I need to review something I want to do as I have not done it in a while. To give you a bit of background, imagine that I am in the office and I am tasked to perform a task I did for the last time last year. Could I say to my manager:

I need some refreshment on it

I need some refresh on it

I need to refresh it

Could you refresh it for me?

Could you refresh it up for me?

Could you give me some refreshment on it?

Could you give me some refresh on it?

Could you give me some refresh up on it?

 

[emsr2d2]

Hello there.

I am hoping you can help me. I have a question about the different sentences I can use when I want to say that I need to review something I want to do as I have not done it in a while. To give you a bit of background, imagine that I am in the office and I am tasked to perform a task I last did [STRIKE]for the last time[/STRIKE] last year. Could I say the following to my manager?

I need some refreshment on it. :tick: That's grammatical and fairly natural.

I need some refresh on it :cross:

I need to refresh it :cross:

Could you refresh it for me? :cross:

Could you refresh it up for me? :cross:

Could you give me some refreshment on it? :cross:

Could you give me some refresh on it? :cross:

Could you give me some refresh up on it? :cross:

See my markups above. The fact that you did not use a closing punctuation mark at the end of any of them made them all incorrect. However, even with a full stop, only the first is grammatical. Where did you get the idea that we use "refresh up"?
Remember that "refresh" is a verb and "refreshment" is a noun.
In your situation, I would say "I'm going to need a refresher" or "I'll need to refresh my memory on how to do that".

 

[Charlie Bernstein]

Hm. I don't like any of those. "I need some refreshment on it" sounds like you want someone to pour Coca Cola all over it.

If you mean you need to be reminded how to do it, you might say:

- Can you refresh my memory?

- Can you remind me how to do it?

Note: Punctuate the ends of ALL sentences!

 

[SoothingDave]

I agree that "refreshment" is the wrong word, as it invokes having snacks and beverages.

I would say you need a refresher on the subject.

 

[Tarheel]

Perhaps:

My memory is a little vague on that. Could you tell me more about what we did that time?

It can be embarrassing to admit you don't remember something, but it's better to do that than to accept the assignment and then not be able to do it because you don't remember how you did it.