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🇫🇷French Source WordCode: FR

trouver

Pronunciation / Transliteration: trouver

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Found/faʊnd/
verbadjectiveCEFR A1 (Beginner)Top #140 frequency
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🇫🇷 Example Sentence in French:

"Après des heures de recherche, j'ai enfin trouvé mes clés sous le canapé."

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As verb
  1. 1

    To discover or locate something that was lost or hidden.

    "After searching for hours, I finally found my keys under the couch."
  2. 2

    To establish or set up something, such as an organization or institution.

    "She plans to found a charity to help underprivileged children."
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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from Old English 'findan', meaning to come upon or discover, of Germanic origin. It shares roots with Old High German 'fintan' and Gothic 'finþan', evolving through Middle English to denote both the past tense of find and the state of having been discovered.

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