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# find — English to French

How English *find* is translated into French in open, checked parallel texts: 1 translation with example sentences.

What it means: [find in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/find/).

Sentence pairs counted, by form: find (64 486), finds (18 487). By style: everyday 2 004 · literary 80 · biblical 189 · parliamentary 18 160 · legal and administrative 4 051 · UN documents 58 489.

## trouve

Used about 25 687 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 960 · literary ≈ 24 · biblical ≈ 72 · parliamentary ≈ 7 567 · legal and administrative ≈ 1 224 · UN documents ≈ 15 841). Forms: trouve, trouver.

- I **find** that funny.
  Je **trouve** ça drôle.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Aiji · checked, community translation · [\#3737370](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3737370) [\#5386440](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5386440))

- I’ll go and **find** my old man.”
  Je vas **trouver** mon vieux.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 16086)

- When he returns, he **finds** it swept and put in order.
  et, quand il arrive, il la **trouve** balayée et ornée.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · LUK 11:25)

- I **find** this perfectly unacceptable.
  Je **trouve** cela absolument inacceptable.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 160628)

- Person could not **find** a permanent job
  elle n'a pas pu **trouver** un emploi permanent
  ([DGT-TM v2021](https://joint-research-centre.ec.europa.eu/language-technology-resources/dgt-translation-memory_en) · Source: European Commission, DGT-TM (Steinberger et al. 2012), re-used under Commission Decision 2011/833/EU; the Commission keeps ownership of the data · checked, professional translation · segment 656789)

## More sentences

Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out.

- You'll **find** both of the books interesting.
  Vous trouverez les deux livres intéressants.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Aiji · checked, community translation · [\#43904](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/43904) [\#8755896](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8755896))

- Did the police **find** any fingerprints?
  La police a-t-elle trouvé des empreintes digitales ?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Aiji · checked, community translation · [\#4497576](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4497576) [\#7045272](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/7045272))

- "What would your mother think?" "She's never going to **find** out."
  « Qu'en penserait ta mère ? » « Elle ne va jamais le découvrir. »
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Hybrid and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#3460417](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3460417) [\#3460538](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3460538))

## Grammar

Notes on grammar and translation on Mova: [English grammar](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/en/) · [French grammar](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/fr/) · [translating between English and French](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/translation/pairs/en-fr/) · [translating from English](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/translation/from-en/) · [translating into French](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/translation/into-fr/).

## About these examples

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