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I was watching a movie where a guy was texting his friend. One of the text
messages he sent was 「友達出来た？」 The subtitles translated it to be "Made any new
friends?"

From the context of the movie the translation made sense, but I thought
作る｛つくる｝ was used when referring to making friends, isn't it?

Also checking [jisho.org](http://jisho.org/search/%E5%87%BA%E6%9D%A5) for
出来｛でき｝ doesn't yield anything similar to making friends. So right now I'm
confused, it seems like both are valid ways of asking if someone made friends.
Is one more formal than the other? Or what's the difference?
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Difference between 友達出来た vs 友達を作った
出来る, dekiru, means to be able to do something. 出来た, dekita, is the past tense
and means to have been able to do something which translates as having
accomplished something. "Yuushoku ga dekita" means to have accomplished dinner
which means to have made dinner and is the same usage as "made a friend".
[dekiru is intransitive so "wo" cannot be used after yuushoku .]
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[According to this
post](http://lang-8.com/44649/journals/478674?_session_id=7b95b28651f669cc3a7fb1388802df7d),
the difference lies in what we are emphasizing.

With 友達ができる, or in your case, its question form, we are focusing on the
**result**. That is, did you or did you not get any friends.

With 友達を作る, we are emphasizing the **action or process** of making friends.

Based on this explanation, I would conclude that in a question form できた would
be more common, which is [confirmed by a corpus
search](http://www.kotonoha.gr.jp/shonagon/search_form).
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できる can mean _to come to being_ , or rather, it is the original meaning of
できる.  
In [jisho.org](http://jisho.org/search/%E5%87%BA%E6%9D%A5) for 出来る, the 6th
and 7th meaning seem to be the same as できる of ''友達（が）できる''.  

''友達ができた'' is more natural, and used more often than ''友達を作った''.  
It gives a hint that you didn't desire someone to be a friend, or didn't make
efforts for making friends. ''It became ' _I have friends.'_ '' is the nearest
expression to 友達ができた in English, even though it's wrong English.  
  
''友達を作った'' gives an impression that you made great efforts for that. Although
it's never strange expression, if someone hears that, s/he may even think that
you can't become friends with anyone through daily plain talk.
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