Learn Hardcore Spanish (Spain): A veces se me olvida el punto final cuando escribo deprisa en el móvil. - Sometimes I forget the full stop when I write quickly on my phone.

Breakdown of A veces se me olvida el punto final cuando escribo deprisa en el móvil.

Why does the sentence use se me olvida instead of something more direct like olvido?

Spanish very often expresses forgetting with olvidarse in a kind of something slips my mind structure.

So:

Olvido el punto final = I forget the full stop
Se me olvida el punto final = literally something like the full stop forgets itself on me

That literal breakdown sounds strange in English, but it is a very natural Spanish way to say I forget the full stop.

This structure often makes the forgetting sound a bit less deliberate and more like it just happens to you.

What do se and me each mean here?

In se me olvida:

So the pattern is:

Examples: