find : v.tr. (word coming from re- and from us).
The verb “find” has many meanings:
I) Find it Now again :
1. See : Is present de new.
This is a occasion that you will never find.
He could not find the same fabric.
2. Learn More de new (which was More infothen forget it) (rediscover).
Find a secret de manufacturing.
– Quotation from the French writer Edmond Goncourt (1822-1896): “This trellis worker finding and reshaping the aerial architectures of the eighteenth century”.
3. Find it Now de new (somewhere, in a state).
Beware if I find you prowling around here (resume).
4. Find it Now somewhere (which There are already elsewhere).
We find in the son theexpression, the smile of father.
I find my son there (recognize).
II) Find it Now what we have lost ou forget it.
1. Find it Now (a being vivant who escaped, no one who left).
Find his dog.
We found the escaped prisoner.
With the attribute: We will find him vivant.
Proverbial phrase: One lost, ten found, is said jokingly to console someone for a sentimental disappointment.
2. Find it Now (something that has been misplaced, stolen, forget it).
Find a stolen car (recover).
Impossible to find my key.
– Quote from the French novelist, playwright, letter writer, literary critic and journalist George Sand, pen name of Amantine Aurore Lucile Dupin de Francueil, Baroness Dudevant (1804-1876): "She didn't need anyone to find her way".
find the trace of a fugitive.
Find some job.
Find it Now, recall (a memory).
I can't find his name.
" Recovered time ", work of the French writer Marcel Proust (1871-1922).
Proverbial phrase: A cat would not find her young there; a hen wouldn't find her chicks there, thought of a messy place.
3. Find it Now (something that was considered lost, because of its age, the difficulty of research).
Paintings such as those found in Pompéi.
– Quotation from the French writer Guy de Maupassant (1850-1893): “We found, near Dieppe, the remains of the Jeune-Amélie, his boat”.
4. To have de new (a quality, state lost) (cover).
find joy et health.
find the forms.
Fall back to sleep.
Familiar: Finding your language.
She regained her confidence.
Soon she found her smile.
– Quote from the French writer André Malraux (1901-1976): “Doctors said he would regain his sight”.
Abstract: Quote from the French novelist, politician, and intellectual of Vaud origin Benjamin Constant de Rebecque (1767-1830) “Have I not found a work force beyond my hopes? ".
Colloquial phrase: To regain one's senses: to regain one's minds.
5. Be of new en présence of (someone from whom one was separate).
To meet someone somewhere (to see again).
– Quote from the French playwright and actor Molière (1622-1673): “I'll come and meet you in a quarter of an hour” (join).
Go back in (a lieu). She finds her maison de the countryside with fun.
Find your native region.
With an object attribute: Review as such aspect. She found him grown, a little aged.
– Quote from the French writer André Gide (1869-1951): “He will find me as he left me. With the same dress and the same thought”.
III) Pronominal verb: to meet again:
A. Reciprocal: Being of new en présence one of the other.
– Quote from the French writer Marcel Proust (1871-1922): “You can only bear your absence by promising yourself a short time, thinking of the day when you will meet again”.
They met by chance à Paris.
Un coffee where you meet up with friends.
Take ! how we meet again!, is said during an unexpected encounter (Le monde is small).
Familiar (in way de threat): We will meet again!, I will take my revenge.
To make an appointment.
– Quote from the French writer, poet, lyricist, singer, music critic, jazz musician and artistic director Boris Vian (1920-1959): “Do you want to meet in twenty minutes, at the garden gate? ".
B. Thoughtful:
1. Finding your way after getting lost.
He does so Black that we don't see each other there again.
Figurative meaning: To find oneself in; to find oneself there: to find where one is, recognize.
If you do not ranges no, we're not going to find ourselves there.
This index is badly done, it is difficult to navigate.
Find yourself in your accounts.
– Quotation from the French writer Émile Henriot (1889-1961): “A remarkable ease in finding oneself in the abstractions of transcendent philosophy”.
Colloquial phrase: Find yourself there: return to one's disbursements; make a profit, To take advantage of, advantage.
He has a lot of costs, but he finds himself there (winning).
2. Literary meaning: To regain possession of oneself, of one's means.
– “It was about time he took care of himself a bit. And for that, he needed to be alone and to be free. It's not easy to find yourself after four years” (Beauvoir).
3. To be again (in a place one has left). Get back to where you started.
To be again (in a state, a situation that had ceased).
Face the same difficulties.
– “I find myself in my element; I resumed my whole existence” (Laclos).
To suddenly find oneself in a situation. Finding yourself out of work, unemployed.
He found himself in the ditch.
He found himself quite alone when his wife died.
Phrase: Finding yourself on the street, homeless.
Familiar: She ended up ending up on the sidewalk, prostituting herself.
C. Passive:
1. Be find a second time.
– Quote from the French writer Henry de Montherlant (1895-1972): “She said to herself that such circumstances would never be found again”.
2. It us also ; to exist elsewhere.
This word is found in several languages.
3. It us (everywhere, always).
– Quotation from the French writer, diplomat and academician Paul Morand (1888-1976): “Humiliating confessions, humiliating refusals […], these words are found at every moment under their pen” (reappear, reappear).