# finde
## English
### Verb

finde
* Archaic spelling of find.
** 1604, King James I, A Counter-Blaste to Tobacco‎:[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: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)‎: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: /fenə/, [ˈfenə]
* Homophone: finne

### Verb

finde (imperative find, infinitive at finde, present tense finder, past tense fandt, perfect tense har fundet)
* to find
* to think, consider (with a noun clause)
* (passive voice) to exist - see findes

#### Conjugation

activepassive
present
finder
findes
past
fandt
fandtes
infinitive
finde
findes
imperative
find
participle
present
findende
past
fundet (auxiliary verb have)
gerund
finden :

## Galician
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈfinde/ [ˈfin̪.d̪ɪ]
* Rhymes: -inde

### Etymology 1

A reduction of fin de semana

#### Noun

finde m (plural findes)
* (colloquial) weekend
    Synonym: fin de semana f

### Etymology 2
#### Verb

finde
* inflection of findar:
** first/third-person singular present subjunctive
** third-person singular imperative

## German
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈfɪndə/
* Audio:(file)

### Verb

finde
* inflection of finden:
** first-person singular present
** first/third-person singular subjunctive I
** singular imperative

## Latin
### Verb

finde
* second-person singular present active imperative of findō

## Old English
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈfin.de/

### Verb

finde
* inflection of findan:
** first-person singular present indicative
** singular present subjunctive

## Portuguese
### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈfĩ.d͡ʒi/
* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈfĩ.d͡ʒi/
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /ˈfĩ.de/
* (Portugal) IPA: /ˈfĩ.dɨ/

### Etymology 1

Ellipsis of fim de semana.

#### Noun

finde m (plural findes)
* (colloquial, Brazil) weekend
    Synonym: fim de semana

### Etymology 2
#### Verb

finde
* inflection of findar:
** first/third-person singular present subjunctive
** third-person singular imperative

## Spanish
### Etymology

Ellipsis of fin de semana.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈfinde/ [ˈfĩn̪.d̪e]
* Rhymes: -inde
* Syllabification: fin‧de

### Noun

finde m (plural findes)
* (Spain, Cono Sur, Peru, 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