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In French, there is a verb "re **trouver** " (literally "re- **find** ", or "
**find** again") which means "find something that you lost and were searching
for" (there the meaning "re-"/"again" is expressed by the morph "re-").

How do we express this term in Japanese?

Do we still use the verb 見つける _mitsukeru_ 'to find'?

An example sentence would be "Mary is happy, she finally **found** the key
(she was looking for since she lost it)".

In French, the part in parenthesis could be ommitted if the word "retrouver"
('re-find') is used instead of "trouver ('find'), since the meaning expressed
in the part in parenthesis is expressed by the morph "re-".
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How to say "find again" in Japanese?
Usually we don't make the distinction:

> 花子は（なくしたので探していた）鍵を見つけて喜んでいる．

(cf. 「道を歩いていたら魔法の鍵を見つけた」where the key isn't your belongings.)

For finding an item you lost previously, you can use （物が）出てくる, which is also a
common phrase.

> 花子は，なくした鍵が出てきたので，喜んでいる．

Note that the concept of 出てくる is appearing. If you had lost something and it
appeared afterwards, you re-found it. Other usages include

> (2) 会社の棚の整理をしていたらこの本が出てきたんだけど，誰のかわからない． (I found this book [this book came
> out] when I was organising the shelves at work, and I have no idea whose
> book it is.)

Slightly irrelevant, there's also 再発見する in the line of re-discover (a concept
or an idea, et cetra)

> 手作りの品の良さを再発見する．

> (wrong) *なくした鍵を再発見した．
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