trouver

Inherited from Old French trover, truver, from Vulgar Latin *tropāre, from Latin tropus; compare English trope.

• IPA^(key): /tʁu.ve/

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• Rhymes: -e

trouver

1. (transitive) to find; to retrieve something lost, turn up something hidden, or encounter something previously unknown to one

   Quand est-ce qu’elle a trouvé les clés ?

   When did she find the keys?

2. (transitive) to find (something to be the case); to think or consider (something to be so)

   Je vous trouve si jolie. ― I find you so pretty.

3. (reflexive, se trouver) to find oneself (at a place or in a situation)
4. (reflexive, se trouver) to be found, to be situated, to be

   La boulangerie se trouve en face du cinéma. ― The bakery is opposite the cinema.

5. (impersonal, reflexive, se trouver) to be the case, to turn out (that)

   Il se trouve que je passe près de chez vous.

   I happen to be heading past your place.

• trouveur

• “trouver”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé , 2012.

• rouvert

From Old French trover, truver, from Vulgar Latin *tropāre, present active infinitive of *tropō, from Latin tropus.

trouver

1. to find

• Middle French conjugation varies from one text to another. Hence, the following conjugation should be considered as typical, not as exhaustive.

• French: trouver

• trouvaïr (Guernsey)

From Old French trover, truver, from Vulgar Latin *tropāre, present active infinitive of *tropō, from Latin tropus.

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trouver (gerund trouv'thie)

1. (Jersey) to find

    Conjugation of the verb « trouver » in Norman

infinitive			trouver
gerund			trouvant
auxiliary			aveir1
past participle				masculine		feminine
		singular		trouvé		trouvée
		plural		trouvés		trouvées
		singular			plural
		1st person	2nd person	3rd person	1st person	2nd person	3rd person
indicative		je (j')	tu (t')	il, alle, nos	je (nos)	vos	il, alles
	present	troue	troues	troue	trouvoms	trouvez	trouent
	imperfect	trouveis	trouveis	trouveit	trouvioms	trouviez	trouveient
	preterite	trouvis	trouvis	trouvit	trouvîmes	trouvîtes	trouvîtrent
	future	trouverai	trouveras	trouvera	trouveroms	trouverez	trouveront
	conditional	trouvereis	trouvereis	trouvereit	trouverioms	trouveriez	trouvereient
subjunctive		que je (j')	que te (t')	qu'il, qu'alle, que nos	que je (que nos)	que vos	qu'il, qu'alles
	present	troue	troues	troue	trouvioms	trouviez	trouent
	imperfect	trouvisse	trouvisse	trouvît trouvisse	trouvissioms	trouvissiez	trouvissent
imperative		—	tu	—	je (nos)	vos	—
			troue		trouvoms	trouvez
1Used with past participles.

• cachi (“to hide”)

From Old French trover, truver, from Vulgar Latin *tropāre, present active infinitive of *tropō, from Latin tropus.

trouver

1. to find