encontrar

A1Rank #368

to find; to meet

Part of speech
verb
Frequency rank
#368 of 5,000

Conjugate encontrar - all tenses →

María y Gertrudis se escondieron cerca de las flores, y los chicos las encontraron a las chicas.

Mary and Gertrude hid themselves near the flowers, and the boys found the girls.

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"encontrar" in example sentences

"encontrar" appears in 1,499 of 223,093 short Tatoeba Spanish sentences that have an English translation, counting 32 spellings (its conjugated forms). Here are 3 of them.

No lo encontrarán.

They won't find it.

Tatoeba #3269338

No lo encontramos.

We couldn't find it.

Tatoeba #10222161

¿Los encontrarás, no?

You will find them, won't you?

Tatoeba #3559035

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