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.

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 · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Aiji · checked, community translation · #3737370 #5386440

• I’ll go and find my old man.”

  Je vas trouver mon vieux.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · 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 · 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 · 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 · 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 · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Aiji · checked, community translation · #43904 #8755896

• Did the police find any fingerprints?

  La police a-t-elle trouvé des empreintes digitales ?

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Aiji · checked, community translation · #4497576 #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 · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Hybrid and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · #3460417 #3460538

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