Bill Situ
English and ESL Instructor
What's the difference between find, found, and founded? To differentiate between these three, we need to first know the two different verbs, find and found:
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.
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.
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