finden

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

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.

• IPA^(key): [ˈfɪndn̩], [ˈfɪndən]

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• Rhymes: -ɪndn̩
• Hyphenation: fin‧den

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.

• 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.

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

• “finden” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
• “finden” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
• “finden” in Duden online
• “finden” in OpenThesaurus.de

finden

1. alternative form of finnen (“find”)

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈfiːndən/, /ˈfindən/

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

• English: find
  • Sranan Tongo: feni, findi (obsolete)
    • Aukan: fénde, féni
    • Saramaccan: féndi, féni
    • → Caribbean Javanese: féni
  • → Welsh: ffeindio
• Scots: find, fynd

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