Base
Where can I find a cheap hotel?
After can, the verb stays in its base form.
Past Tense of Find: Found
Find is an irregular verb. The past simple and the past participle are the same form: found. You can say I found it and I have found it.
Base
find
Past
found
Past participle
found
Third person: finds · -ing form: finding
ABB: form patternExamples
Base
I always find my glasses on the table.
A habit in the present uses find.
Past
She found a ring on the street.
Found is the past form; it needs no helper.
Past
We found a good restaurant near the hotel.
One finished event in the past uses found.
Past participle
I have found my passport!
Have found links the past to now.
Past participle
Have they found the answer yet?
In a question, found still follows have.
Usage notes
Find or look for?
Look for is the search: I am looking for my keys. Find is the result: I found my keys. You can look for something and not find it.
Find out
Find out means learn a fact: I found out the answer. Find means discover a thing or place. Notice the past is found in both cases.
Find it easy or hard
Use find plus it plus an adjective to give your opinion: I find English grammar easy. She found the test difficult.
Common mistakes
I finded my key.
I found my key.
Find is irregular, so the past is found, not finded.
I have find it.
I have found it.
After have, use the past participle found, not the base form.
I am finding my keys.
I am looking for my keys.
Find describes the result. To describe the search, use look for.
Practise this verb
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Choose the right form
Choose the form that completes each English sentence.
1.Yesterday I ___ a coin on the floor.
2.Have you ___ your bag?
3.Where can I ___ a bus map?
4.She ___ ten euros in her coat last week.
Write the missing form
Type the correct form of find in each sentence.
Correct the mistake
Rewrite the English sentence with the correct verb form.
8.Choose the mistake in this sentence.
Answer key
1. Yesterday I ___ a coin on the floor.
Answer: found
Yesterday is finished, so use the past form found.
2. Have you ___ your bag?
Answer: found
After have, use the past participle found.
3. Where can I ___ a bus map?
Answer: find
After can, use the base form find.
4. She ___ ten euros in her coat last week.
Answer: found
Last week is finished, so use found.
5. We ___ a cheap hotel online last month.
Answer: found
Last month is finished, so use found.
6. He has ___ a new job.
Answer: found
Has plus the participle is has found.
7. I can't ___ my glasses.
Answer: find
After can't, use the base form find.
8. She has finded her phone.
Answer: She has found her phone.
Find is irregular: the participle is found.
Frequently asked questions
What is the past tense of find?
The past tense of find is found: I found my keys this morning.
What is the past participle of find?
The past participle is also found: I have found a job.
Is it finded or found?
Say found. Find is irregular, so there is no finded.