finde

English

Verb

finde

1. Archaic spelling of find.
   • 1604, King James I, A Counter-Blaste to Tobacco‎^[1]:

     [F] The other argument drawen from a mistaken experience, is but the more particular probation of this generall, because it is alleaged to be found true by proofe, that by the taking of Tobacco diuers and very many doe finde themselves cured of diuers diseases as on the other part, no man euer receiued harme thereby.

   • 1616, Alexander Roberts, A Treatise of Witchcraft‎^[2]:

     Which Sea, though it will yeeld good plenty of such like presidents, and we may finde them in authenticall records of Histories, yet I content my selfe with this one.

   • 1663, Samuel Pepys, (Please provide the book title or journal name)‎^[3]:

     Strange things are told of this vessel, and he concludes his letter with this position, "I only affirm that the perfection of sayling lies in my principle, finde it out who can."

Anagrams

• endif, fiend, fined, indef, indef.

Danish

Etymology

From Old Danish finnæ, from Old Norse finna (“find”), from Proto-Germanic *finþaną. Cognate with English find and German finden.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fenə/, [ˈfenə]
• Homophone: finne

Verb

finde (imperative find, infinitive at finde, present tense finder, past tense fandt, perfect tense har fundet)

1. to find
2. to think, consider (with a noun clause)
3. (passive voice) to exist - see findes

Conjugation

Inflection of finde

	present	past
simple	finder	fandt
perfect	har fundet	havde fundet
passive	findes	fandtes
participle	findende	fundet
imperative	find	—
infinitive	finde	—
auxiliary verb	have	—
gerund	finden	—

Galician

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfinde/ [ˈfin̪.d̪ɪ]
• Rhymes: -inde

Etymology 1

A reduction of fin de semana

Noun

finde m (plural findes)

1. (colloquial) weekend

   Synonym: fin de semana f

Etymology 2

Verb

finde

1. inflection of findar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

German

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfɪndə/

• Audio:

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Verb

finde

1. inflection of finden:
   1. first-person singular present
   2. first/third-person singular subjunctive I
   3. singular imperative

Latin

Verb

finde

1. second-person singular present active imperative of findō

Old English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfin.de/

Verb

finde

1. inflection of findan:
   1. first-person singular present indicative
   2. singular present subjunctive

Portuguese

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈfĩ.d͡ʒi/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈfĩ.d͡ʒi/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈfĩ.de/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈfĩ.dɨ/

Etymology 1

Ellipsis of fim de semana.

Noun

finde m (plural findes)

1. (colloquial, Brazil) weekend

   Synonym: fim de semana

Etymology 2

Verb

finde

1. inflection of findar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

Spanish

Etymology

Ellipsis of fin de semana.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfinde/ [ˈfĩn̪.d̪e]
• Rhymes: -inde
• Syllabification: fin‧de

Noun

finde m (plural findes)

(Spain, Rioplatense, Chile, Peru, Paraguay)

1. (colloquial) weekend

   Synonym: fin de semana

   ¿Cómo te fue el finde?

   How was your weekend?

Further reading

• “finde”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10