to find you well
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6.1
- idiom
- Formal
:
te encuentre bien
- I hope this finds you well.
- I hope this letter finds you well
Dearest Judge Kavanaugh, I hope this Twitter letter finds you well.
- Dearest Judge Kavanaugh, I hope this Twitter letter finds you well.
- Hi everybody, how I I hope this live stream broadcast finds you well, finds your family healthy.
Examples
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I hope this message finds you well.
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I hope that this letter finds you well.
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I hope this card finds you well.
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I hope this message finds you well.
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"I trust this message finds you well, "though I fear my news is not happy.
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It's been a long time since I wrote, so I hope this finds you well.
Blog text (31) -
I hope this note finds you well.
Blog text (13) -
Dear Celie, I hope this letter finds you well.
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Dear Natalie, I hope this letter finds you well.
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I hope this letter finds you well and in good spirits.
Synonyms
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2.7
To hope that someone will have good luck or success
Showing kind feelings for another person's happiness or success
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'I hope this message reaches you and you are in good health' is directly derivable from 'find' (to come upon/discover) + 'you' + 'well' (in good health) — similar to patterns like 'I found him asleep.' Although formulaic in written English, the composition follows standard grammar and has parallels in other languages, so a B1 learner who knows the constituent words can infer the meaning.
Etymology
Find you well comes from old letters: imagine a letter arriving and finding you well, meaning the writer hopes you are healthy. That's why today people use it to say 'to hope someone is in good health'.