finders, keepers

See also: finders, keepers; losers, weepers

English

Pronunciation

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Proverb

finders, keepers

1. Whoever finds something is allowed to keep it.

Derived terms

• finders, keepers; losers, weepers

Translations

whoever finds something is allowed to keep it

• Arabic: من سبق لبق
• Cimbrian: bèar binnet haltet
• Esperanto: getrovantoj, gegardantoj
• Finnish: löytäjä saa pitää, löytäjä pitää
• French: trouver, c’est garder, qui trouve garde
• German: wer's findet, darf's behalten
• Hebrew: כָּל הַקּוֹדֵם זוֹכֶה (he) (kol haqodém zoché)
• Hungarian: (minden) azé, aki megtalálja
• Icelandic: sá á fund sem finnur (is)
• Irish: an té a fuair is dó is cóir (é)
• Italian: chi lo trova se lo tiene chi lo perde lo rimpiange
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: finner'n er vinner'n (finneren er vinneren)

  Nynorsk: finnaren er vinnaren

• Polish: znalezione, nie kradzione
• Portuguese: achado não é roubado
• Russian: Что упало, то пропало. (Što upalo, to propalo.)
• Swedish: den som tar den får den
• Turkish: kim bulduysa onundur, mal bulanındır