Bill Situ
English and ESL Instructor
Find
Find usually means to look for or to perceive something. Examples:
The pirates find the treasure on the island.
Kim finds the homework questions very challenging.
The past tense of find is found:
The pirates found the treasure on the island.
Kim found the homework questions very challenging.
Found
Found is the past tense of find, but it also is a present-tense, meaning to establish or create (usually referring to a company or organization). The past tense of this verb is founded. Example:
Bill Gates founded Microsoft in 1975.
Jeff Bezos founded Amazon in 1994.