find

English

Etymology

From Old English findan, from Proto-Germanic *finþaną (compare Dutch vinden, German finden, Swedish finna), a secondary verb from Proto-Indo-European *pontHo- (compare Old Irish étain 'I find', áitt 'place', Latin pōns 'bridge', Ancient Greek póntos 'sea', Old Armenian հուն (hun, “ford”), Avestan pantā (gen. paþō), Sanskrit pánthās 'path').

Pronunciation

• enPR: fīnd, IPA: /faɪnd/, X-SAMPA: /faInd/

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• Rhymes: -aɪnd
• Homophone: fined

Verb

"Nymphs Finding the Head of Orpheus", a painting by John William Waterhouse

find (third-person singular simple present finds, present participle finding, simple past found or fand (dialectal), past participle found or (archaic) founden)

1. (transitive) To encounter, to discover something searched for.

   Project Gutenberg finds that Find is the 190th most important word in the English language.

   I found my car keys -- they were under the couch.

   • 2011 January 25, Paul Fletcher, “Arsenal 3 - 0 Ipswich (agg 3 - 1)”, BBC:

     Van Persie scored a hat-trick against Wigan on Saturday and should have found the net again after Bendtner found him at the far post but the Dutchman's header rebounded to safety off the crossbar.

2. (transitive) To point out.

   He kept finding faults with my work.

3. (transitive) To decide that, to form the opinion that.

   I find your argument unsatisfactory.

4. (intransitive) To determine or judge.

   The jury finds for the defendant.

Synonyms

• See also Wikisaurus:deem

Antonyms

• lose

Derived terms

See also finding and found

• find fault
• find one's feet
• find out

Translations

encounter, locate, discover

• Abkhaz: please add this translation if you can
• Ainu: パ (pa)
• Arabic: وجد (ar) (wájada)
• Armenian: գտնել (hy) (gtnel) 
• Avar: please add this translation if you can
• Azeri: bulmaq (az)
• Basque: aurkitu (eu), topatu (eu)
• Breton: kavout (br)
• Bulgarian: намирам (bg) (namiram), откривам (bg) (otkrivam)
• Catalan: trobar (ca)
• Chechen: please add this translation if you can
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 找到 (cmn) (zhǎodào)

• Crimean Tatar: tapmaq
• Czech: nalézt (cs), najít (cs)
• Danish: finde (da), træffe (da)
• Dutch: vinden (nl), aantreffen (nl)
• Egyptian: gm

• Esperanto: trovi (eo)
• Estonian: leidma (et)
• Faroese: finna (fo)
• Finnish: löytää (fi)
• French: trouver (fr)
• Galician: atopar (gl)
• Georgian: მიგნება (ka) (migneba) , პოვნა (ka) (povna) 
• German: finden (de)
• Greek: βρίσκω (el) (vrísko) 
• Hebrew: מצא (he) (matzá)
• Hindi: पाना (hi) (pānā)
• Hungarian: please add this translation if you can
• Icelandic: finna (is)
• Interlingua: trovar (ia)

• Irish: faigh (ga), aimsigh (ga)
• Italian: trovare (it)
• Japanese: 見つける (ja) (みつける, mitsukeru) (見附る (ja))
• Jèrriais: trouver
• Khmer: រកឃើញ (km) (rɔɔk kʰəəñ)
• Kurdish:

  Sorani: دیتنه‌وه‌, دۆزینه‌وه‌

• Latgalian: atrast, rast
• Latin: invenīre (la), nanciscor (la)
• Latvian: atrast (lv), rast (lv)
• Lithuanian: surasti (lt)
• Macedonian: наоѓа (mk) (náoǵa), пронаоѓа (mk) (pronáoǵa)
• Mizo: hmu, hmuchhuak
• Mongolian: олох (mn) (oloh)
• Norwegian: finne (no)
• Ossetian: please add this translation if you can
• Persian: یافتن (fa) (yâftan), پیدا کردن (fa) (peydâ kardan)
• Polish: znajdować (pl)
• Portuguese: achar (pt), encontrar (pt)
• Quechua: tariy (qu)
• Romanian: găsi (ro)
• Russian: находить (ru) (naxodít’)  impf., найти (ru) (najtí)  pf.
• Scots: fin
• Scottish Gaelic: faigh (gd), lorg (gd), amais (gd)
• Serbo-Croatian: naći (sh)
• Slovak: nájsť (sk)
• Slovene: najti (sl)
• Spanish: encontrar (es), hallar (es)
• Swedish: finna (sv), hitta (sv), uppdaga (sv), upptäcka (sv), utröna (sv)
• Thai: please add this translation if you can
• Turkish: bulmak (tr)
• Tuvan: тывар (tyvar)
• Vietnamese: tìm (vi)
• Volapük: tuvön (vo)

point out

• Czech: objevit (cs), nalézt (cs)
• Danish: finde (da), udpege (da)
• Dutch: vinden (nl), ontdekken (nl)
• Finnish: osoittaa (fi)
• Georgian: მითითება (ka) (mititeba) , ჩვენება (ka) (chveneba) 
• Hebrew: הצביע (he) (hitzbía)
• Japanese: 指摘する (ja) (してきする, shiteki-suru)
• Latin: designare (la)

• Macedonian: востановува (mk) (vostanóvuva), утврдува (mk) (utv'rduva)
• Mizo: hmuchhuak
• Norwegian: finne (no)
• Persian: نمایاندن (fa) (namâyândan)
• Portuguese: achar (pt), encontrar (pt)
• Russian: выискивать (ru) (vyískivat’)  impf.
• Swedish: finna (sv), hitta (sv)

decide that

• Armenian: գտնել (hy) (gtnel) 
• Bulgarian: убеждавам се (bg) (ubeždavam se)
• Czech: pokládat za (cs)
• Danish: finde (da)
• Dutch: vinden (nl), van mening zijn dat
• Finnish: pitää (fi)
• French: trouver (fr)

• Hebrew: מצא (he) (matzá)
• Latin: decernere (la)
• Macedonian: наоѓа (mk) (náoǵa)
• Norwegian: finne (no)
• Portuguese: achar (pt)
• Russian: находить (ru) (naxodít’)  impf., найти (ru) (najtí)  pf.
• Spanish: creer (es), encontrar (es)
• Swedish: finna (sv), konstatera (sv)

determine, judge

• Armenian: գտնել (hy) (gtnel) 
• Bulgarian: решавам (bg) (rešavam), изчислявам (bg) (izčisljavam)
• Danish: dømme (da)
• Dutch: achten (nl)
• Esperanto: juĝi (eo)
• Estonian: leidma (et)
• Japanese: 評決する (ひょうけつする, hyōketsu-suru)

• Latin: arbitrare (la), arbitror (la)
• Macedonian: востановува (mk) (vostanóvuva), утврдува (mk) (utv'rduva), констатира (mk) (konstatíra)
• Norwegian: finne (no)
• Russian: находить (ru) (naxodít')  impf., найти (ru) (najtí)  pf.
• Spanish: determinar (es), juzgar (es)
• Swedish: finna (sv), konstatera (sv)

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Translations to be checked

• Faroese: koma framá (1,3), gera vart við, taka fram (2), gera av (4), halda at vera (5), døma (6, 7)
• Ido: trovar
• Indonesian: temu, menemukan, menemui

Noun

find (plural finds)

1. Anything that is found (usually valuable), as objects on an archeological site or a person with talent.
2. The act of finding.

Synonyms

• (anything found): discovery, catch

Translations

anything found

• Bulgarian: находка (bg) f (nahodka)
• Danish: fund (da) c
• Dutch: vondst (nl) f
• Esperanto: trovaĵo, trovitaĵo
• Finnish: löytö (fi)
• French: trouvaille (fr) f
• Galician: achado (gl) m
• Hebrew: מציאה (he) f
• Hungarian: lelet (hu)
• Icelandic: fundur (is) m

• Italian: scoperta (it) f
• Latin: inventus (la) m
• Macedonian: наод (mk) (náod) m
• Norwegian: funn (no) n
• Polish: znalezisko n
• Romanian: descoperire (ro) f
• Russian: находка (ru) (naxódka) f 
• Spanish: hallazgo (es) m
• Swedish: fynd (sv) n

act of finding

• Bulgarian: намиране (bg) n (namirane)
• Hebrew: מציאה (he) f
• Macedonian: наоѓање (mk) (naóǵanje) n

• Norwegian: funn (no) n
• Taos: thǫ́ne
• Thai: หา (th)

Statistics

• Most common English words before 1923: Lord · de · whole · #190: find · got · let · world

External links

• find in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• find in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911

Anagrams

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Danish

Pronunciation

• IPA: /fend/, [fenˀ]

Verb

find

1. imperative of finde