found

«found» in Mova's school dictionary: the past of "find": "I found my keys." — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

verb (past and past participle of find: found); verb (found, founds, founded, founding — to start)

meaning for a pupil

1) Found is the past of "find": "I found my keys." tree →

2) To found something is to start or set up an organisation, school, city or company: "She founded a charity." tree →

3) "Found" as an adjective means something that was lost and is found: "Lost and found". tree →

4) "Be found to be" (formal) means turned out to be after checking. tree →

sense in the lessons

In stories "found" is everywhere: someone lost something and found it, or found a clue. In history, people founded towns, schools and churches; the person is the founder. Lost-property boxes at school are labelled "lost and found". Phrases: found out (discovered the truth), found it, lost and found, founded by.

examples

• I found a pound coin under the sofa! tree →
• We found out who ate the cake. tree →
• Saint Columba founded a monastery on Iona. tree →
• The school was founded by a group of nuns. tree →
• Check the lost and found box for your jumper. tree →
• The answer was found to be correct. tree →
• Holberg, Denmark's Moliere, founded here an academy for the sons of the nobles. tree →

note

Two verbs share this spelling: find → found → found (irregular), and found → founded → founded (regular, "to start"). Trap: "founded" is NOT the past of find. "Find out" (discover) → "found out".

In the corpora

• A bot never gets impatient with repeated explanations, but you should still tell your teacher what you found hard.
• It was reported that scammers use AI to copy voices from short clips found online.
• The Mona Lisa became even more famous after it was stolen in 1911 and found two years later.
• A study found that cats and dogs often get on best when the cat comes into the home before the dog.
• Mammoths were close relatives of today's elephants, closest of all to the Asian elephant, as scientists found by comparing DNA.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «found» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.