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finden

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Galician

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Verb

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finden

  1. inflection of findar:
    1. third-person plural present subjunctive
    2. third-person plural imperative

German

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Etymology

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From Middle High German vinden, from Old High German findan, from Proto-West Germanic *finþan, from Proto-Germanic *finþaną. Cognate with Bavarian findn, Low German finden, Dutch vinden, English find, Danish finde.

Pronunciation

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Verb

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finden (class 3 strong, third-person singular present findet, past tense fand, past participle gefunden, past subjunctive fände, auxiliary haben)

  1. (transitive) to find; to discover
    Ich habe deine Schlüssel gefunden.
    I found your keys.
  2. (transitive) to think, to consider, to find [with accusative ‘someone/something’, along with predicate adjective or accusative noun ‘to be a certain way’]
    Findest du mich interessant?
    Do you find me interesting?
  3. (intransitive) to find one's way
    Er hat nicht mehr nach Hause gefunden.
    He couldn't find his way home anymore.
  4. (reflexive) to be found, can be found
    Früher oder später findet sich bestimmt eine Lösung.
    I'm sure a solution can be found sooner or later.

Usage notes

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  • finden in sense 2 is part of the group of verbs where the spoken usage of the past tense is more common than the perfect tense.

Conjugation

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  • 1st ps. sg. indicative present active also: find', find

Derived terms

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Further reading

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  • finden”, in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache[1] (in German)
  • finden” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
  • finden” in Duden online
  • finden” in OpenThesaurus.de

Low German

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Verb

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finden

  1. alternative form of finnen (find)

Middle English

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Etymology

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From Old English findan, from Proto-West Germanic *finþan (with levelled Verner's Law alternations).

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈfiːndən/, /ˈfindən/

Verb

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finden (third-person singular simple present findeth, present participle findende, findynge, first-/third-person singular past indicative fand, past participle founden)

  1. (transitive) to find; to discover

Conjugation

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Conjugation of finden (strong class 3)
infinitive (to) finden, finde
present tense past tense
1st-person singular finde fond, found
2nd-person singular findest, finst founde1
3rd-person singular findeth, fint fond, found
subjunctive singular finde founde2
imperative singular
plural3 finden, finde founden, founde
imperative plural findeth, finde
participles findynge, findende founden, founde, yfounden, yfounde

1 Later replaced by the 1st-/3rd-person singular or fondest, foundest.
2 Later replaced by the indicative.
3 Sometimes used as a formal 2nd-person singular.

Descendants

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