VocabularyJLPT N4 · core

見つかる

みつかる

hepburn mitsukaru

to be found, to be discovered (intransitive)

Part of speech · godan-verb

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Examples

なくした財布がやっと見つかりました。
The wallet I lost was finally found.
いい仕事がなかなか見つかりません。
A good job is not easy to find.

Collocations

財布が見つかる答えが見つかる仕事が見つかる見つからないすぐ見つかる

Mnemonic

見つかる mitsukaru — the intransitive partner of 見つける (to find, transitive, partial-1). With no agent, it means "to be found, to turn up." 財布を見つける (to find a wallet) is transitive; 財布が見つかる (a wallet is found) is intransitive. The negative 見つからない (cannot be found) is common.

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