To discover information or a fact, either by searching, asking, or being told.
To get information you didn't know before.
2 meanings, ordered from most common to least. Color-coded by CEFR level.
To discover a fact or piece of information by searching, asking, or investigating.
"I need to find out what time the train leaves tomorrow."
"We shall fight on the beaches... we shall never surrender, until, in God's good time, the New World, with all its power and might, steps forth to the rescue and the liberation — find out what they can do."
To discover that someone has done something wrong or has been lying; to expose someone.
"The manager found out that he had been forging the accounts."
One of the most common phrasal verbs in English. Can be followed by a clause ('find out that/what/where/why') or a noun object ('find out the answer'). When the object is a pronoun, it must go between the verb and the particle ('find it out'). Also used intransitively: 'I'll find out'.
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