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A1#72Hear it
verb
- to find; to retrieve something lost, turn up something hidden, or encounter something previously unknown to one
- to findsomething to be the case); to think or consider (something to be so
- to find oneselfat a place or in a situation
- to be found, to be situated, to be
- to be the case, to turn outthat
Forms
Present
| I | trouve |
|---|---|
| you | trouves |
| he, she, it | trouve |
| we | trouvons |
| you (plural) | trouvez |
| they | trouvent |
Imperfect
| I | trouvais |
|---|---|
| you | trouvais |
| he, she, it | trouvait |
| we | trouvions |
| you (plural) | trouviez |
| they | trouvaient |
Past historic
| I | trouvai |
|---|---|
| you | trouvas |
| he, she, it | trouva |
| we | trouvâmes |
| you (plural) | trouvâtes |
| they | trouvèrent |
Future
| I | trouverai |
|---|---|
| you | trouveras |
| he, she, it | trouvera |
| we | trouverons |
| you (plural) | trouverez |
| they | trouveront |
Conditional
| I | trouverais |
|---|---|
| you | trouverais |
| he, she, it | trouverait |
| we | trouverions |
| you (plural) | trouveriez |
| they | trouveraient |
Subjunctive
| I | trouve |
|---|---|
| you | trouves |
| he, she, it | trouve |
| we | trouvions |
| you (plural) | trouviez |
| they | trouvent |
Imperfect subjunctive
| I | trouvasse |
|---|---|
| you | trouvasses |
| he, she, it | trouvât |
| we | trouvassions |
| you (plural) | trouvassiez |
| they | trouvassent |
Imperative
| you | trouve |
|---|---|
| we | trouvons |
| you (plural) | trouvez |
Other forms
| infinitive | trouver |
|---|---|
| past participle | trouvé |
| gerund | trouvant |
More forms are in the app.
Used in the library
- Ce placard est terrible. On ne trouve rien.That cupboard is terrible. You can't find anything.A1Le grand ménage — The big clean
- Les soldats et les colons ne trouvaient pas de femme pour se marier.The soldiers and the settlers could not find a wife to marry.A1Les Filles du Roy — The King's Daughters
- – Et moi qui pensais la trouver quasiment guérie, fit-il."And I who thought that she was almost healed," he said.B1Maria Chapdelaine
- Ils choisissent une île où Jacques Cartier avait trouvé, un siècle plus tôt, le village d'Hochelaga.They choose an island where Jacques Cartier had found, a century earlier, the village of Hochelaga.B1La fondation de Montréal — The founding of Montréal