finde

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."

• endif, fiend, fined, indef, indef.

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

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

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

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

A reduction of fin de semana

finde m (plural findes)

1. (colloquial) weekend

   Synonym: fin de semana f

finde

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈfɪndə/

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finde

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

finde

1. second-person singular present active imperative of findō

• IPA^(key): /ˈfin.de/

finde

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

Ellipsis of fim de semana.

finde m (plural findes)

1. (colloquial, Brazil) weekend

   Synonym: fim de semana

finde

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

Ellipsis of fin de semana.

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

finde m (plural findes)

1. (Spain, Southern Cone, Peru, colloquial) weekend

   Synonym: fin de semana

   ¿Cómo te fue el finde?

   How was your weekend?

• “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], 10 December 2024