While you lookup 찾다 within the dictionary, each “to search out” and “to search for” will pop up as its translations. Which one does it imply? Can it imply each? If that’s the case, how have you learnt which which means the speaker is making an attempt to precise?

As you possibly can count on, all of it comes all the way down to context, however there are additionally some methods Korean audio system use to make a distinction between these two meanings. 

Let’s take a look at pattern sentences utilizing every 찾다.

• • 찾다 = to search out 
    • Did you discover it? = 찾았어요?
    • I discovered it! = 찾았어요!
    • The place did you discover it? = 어디에서 찾았어요?
    • How did you discover it? = 어떻게 찾았어요? 
    • Who discovered it? = 누가 찾았어요?
  • 찾다 = to search for
    • What are you on the lookout for? = 뭐 찾고 있어요?
    • Is there one thing you might be on the lookout for? = 찾는 거 있으세요? 

While you have a look at these sentences, the which means distinction is less complicated and you do not want another clues to clear issues up. However if you wish to say issues like: 

• • Did you search for it? 
  • I appeared for it. 

Issues turn out to be a bit complicated as a result of if you happen to simply say 찾았어요? or 찾았어요, it can imply “Did you FIND it?” and “I FOUND it.” Then how are you going to specific the which means of “search for” on this case? ⬇️ 

 

That is once you add the phrase 보다 and use 찾아보다 as a substitute of 찾다. 

 

While you say 찾았어요?, it sounds virtually all the time like “Did you discover it?” and virtually by no means “Did you search for it?”. 

➡️ So as a substitute, you must say 찾아봤어요? to imply “Did you search for it?”. 

 

While you say 여기에서 찾았는데, it often means “I discovered it right here however” and never “I appeared for it right here however”.

➡️ So as a substitute, you must say 여기에서 찾아봤는데 to imply “I appeared (for it) right here however…” 

 

However once you use the current progressive tense, or in different phrases, say that you’re “on the lookout for” one thing, you need to use 찾고 있다 since you are most likely not saying that you’re “discovering” one thing. 

• 뭐 찾고 있어요? = What are you on the lookout for?
• 제 안경 찾고 있어요. = I am on the lookout for my glasses.

In the event you say 찾아보고 있어요, it additionally means one thing barely completely different. You might be on the lookout for one thing, however you might be researching for it or trying issues up on-line. 

• 인터넷에서 정보를 찾아보고 있어요. = I am trying up info on-line. 

 

 

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