vinden

vinden c

1. definite singular of vind
2. definite singular of vinde

From Middle Dutch vinden, from Old Dutch findan, from Proto-West Germanic *finþan, from Proto-Germanic *finþaną, from Proto-Indo-European *pent- (“to go, pass; path, bridge”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈvɪndə(n)/

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• Hyphenation: vin‧den
• Rhymes: -ɪndən

vinden

1. (transitive) to find (after searching)

   Gevonden! ― Found (it)!

   Ik zal je vinden. ― I'll find you.

2. (transitive) to find, to come across

   Plots vond ik een pen. ― All of a sudden I found a pen.

   • 2021, Huber M., van den Brekel-Dijkstra K., Jung H.P., “Inleiding”, in Handboek Positieve Gezondheid in de huisartspraktijk, →DOI:

     De anderhalvemetereconomie zorgt ervoor dat huisartsen- en ziekenhuiszorg zo georganiseerd moeten worden dat patiënten, letterlijk en figuurlijk, waar dat kan zo veel mogelijk ob afstand worden gehouden tot er een vaccin gevonden is en dat breed wordt toegepast.

     The one-and-a-half-meter economy means that general practitioners and hospitals must be organized so that, literally and figuratively, patients are distanced as much as possible until a vaccine is available and has been widely distributed.

3. (transitive, copulative) to find, to think, to feel, to be of opinion

   Ze vinden de film walgelijk. ― They find the film disgusting.

• Afrikaans: vind
• Berbice Creole Dutch: fende
• Jersey Dutch: vände
• Negerhollands: vind, fin
• Skepi Creole Dutch: fint, fent
• →? Sranan Tongo: feni
  • → Aukan: fende
  • → Caribbean Javanese: féni
  • → Saramaccan: féndi, féni

From Old Dutch findan.

vinden

1. to find (after searching)
2. to find, to come across, to encounter
3. to discover
4. to judge, to deem
5. to think of, to come up with

• Dutch: vinden
• Limburgish: vinje

• “vinden”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• Verwijs, E., Verdam, J. (1885–1929) “vinden”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN

Inherited from Old High German findan.

• IPA^(key): (before 13^th CE) /ˈvindən/, /ˈfindən/

vinden (class 3 strong, third-person singular present vindet, past tense vant, past participle vunden, past subjunctive vünde, auxiliary hān)

1. to find

   In grôȥen vreuden er schein
   und bat sîn vriunde dô
   daȥ sie mit im wæren vrô,
   wan er hæte an den stunden
   sîn verlorneȥ schâf vunden. ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)

• Alemannic German: fianda (Vorarlberg)
• Bavarian: findn

  Cimbrian: vènnan, bènnan, vennen, vintan

  Mòcheno: vinnen

• Central Franconian: fenge
• German: finden
• Luxembourgish: fannen
• Yiddish: געפֿינען (gefinen)

• Benecke, Georg Friedrich, Müller, Wilhelm, Zarncke, Friedrich (1863) “vinden”, in Mittelhochdeutsches Wörterbuch: mit Benutzung des Nachlasses von Benecke, Stuttgart: S. Hirzel

vinden m

1. definite singular of vind

vinden m

1. definite singular of vind

vinden

1. definite singular of vind