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# 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/found/#m1)

2) To found something is to start or set up an organisation, school, city or company: "She founded a charity." [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/found/#m2)

3) "Found" as an adjective means something that was lost and is found: "Lost and found". [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/found/#m3)

4) "Be found to be" (formal) means turned out to be after checking. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/found/#m4)

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/found/#x1)
- We found out who ate the cake. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/found/#x2)
- Saint Columba founded a monastery on Iona. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/found/#x3)
- The school was founded by a group of nuns. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/found/#x4)
- Check the lost and found box for your jumper. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/found/#x5)
- The answer was found to be correct. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/found/#x6)
- Holberg, Denmark's Moliere, founded here an academy for the sons of the nobles. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/found/#x7)

### 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.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/10-using-ai-to-learn-not-to-copy/19/)
- [It was reported that scammers use AI to copy voices from short clips found online.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/12-keep-yourself-private-and-voices-that-lie/12/)
- [The Mona Lisa became even more famous after it was stolen in 1911 and found two years later.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/40-show-day-the-exhibition-the-concert-and-the-big-arts-quiz/6/)
- [A study found that cats and dogs often get on best when the cat comes into the home before the dog.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/121-spike-and-tom-real-dogs-and-cats/7/)
- [Mammoths were close relatives of today's elephants, closest of all to the Asian elephant, as scientists found by comparing DNA.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/130-ice-age-real-woolly-mammoths/12/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «found» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/found/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.