finders keepers

English

Wikipedia

Proverb

finders keepers

1. The doctrine that whoever finds something is allowed to keep it

Translations

whoever finds something is allowed to keep it

• Arabic: من سبق لبق (ar)
• Esperanto: getrovantoj, gegardantoj (eo)
• Finnish: löytäjä saa pitää (fi)
• French: trouver, c’est garder (fr)
• Icelandic: sá á fund sem finnur (is)

• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: finner'n er vinner'n (finneren er vinneren) (nb)

  Nynorsk: finnaren er vinnaren (nn)

• Portuguese: achado não é roubado (pt)

Usage notes

• Often "finders keepers, losers weepers"