English
Pronunciation
Verb
find out (third-person singular simple present finds out, present participle finding out, simple past and past participle found out)
- (idiomatic) To discover, as by asking or investigating.
- I don't know who the twenty-first president of the United States was, but it should be very easy to find out.
- To discover or expose (someone) as disobedient, dishonest, etc.
- He had been fiddling the books for years, but finally he was found out.
- To uncover a weakness (in someone).
- He may cope with the multiple choice questions, but the written exam will find him out.
- If you don't try, you do not find it out.
Translations
to discover
- Afrikaans: uitvind (af)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 找出 (zh) (zhǎochū), 查明 (zh) (chámíng), 發現／发现 (zh) (fāxiàn), 发现 (zh) (fāxiàn), 調查／调查 (zh) (diàochá), 调查 (zh) (diàochá)
- Czech: zjistit (cs)
- Danish: finde ud af, undersøge
- Dutch: ontdekken (nl), onderzoeken (nl), uitvinden (nl)
- Esperanto: sciiĝi
- Finnish: saada selville, selvittää (fi)
- French: découvrir (fr), savoir (fr)
- German: herausfinden (de), erfahren (de)
- Greek:
- Ancient: πυνθάνομαι (punthánomai), ἐξευρίσκω (exeurískō)
- Hungarian: kitalál (hu), rájön (hu), megtud (hu)
- Icelandic: komast að, komast á snoðir um
- Italian: scoprire (it)
- Japanese: 見出す (みだす, midasu), 調べる (ja) (しらべる, shiraberu), 分かる (ja) (わかる, wakaru), 発見する (ja) (はっけんする, hakken-suru)
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- Lao: ຊອກຮູ້ (söök-huu)
- Latin: resciscō, experior, reperiō, comperiō
- Latvian: uzzināt
- Macedonian: дознава (doznava)
- Norwegian: finne ut
- Polish: dowiedzieć się (pl) pf
- Portuguese: descobrir (pt)
- Romanian: descoperi (ro), afla (ro)
- Russian: узнава́ть (ru) impf (uznavátʹ), узна́ть (ru) pf (uznátʹ), обнару́жить (ru) (obnarúžitʹ)
- Scottish Gaelic: faigh a-mach
- Slovak: zistiť, zisťovať
- Spanish: descubrir (es), averiguar (es)
- Swedish: ta reda på
- Turkish: anlamak (tr), ortaya çıkarmak (tr)
- Ukrainian: дізнаватися (diznavatysja), дізнатися (diznatysja), довідуватися (doviduvatysja), довідатися (dovidatysja)
- Yiddish: דערוויסן זיך (dervisn zikh)
- Zazaki: fahm kerden, idrak kerden, ver veten
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