En la kesto mitrovis du librojn troe = In the box I found two books too many (in excess).
Li ekzamenis la pomojn, kaj trovis unujn bonaj kaj aliajn malbonaj = He examined the apples, and found some good and others bad.
Ili trovis lin kaj min en la ĝardeno = They found him and me in the garden.
Ni trovis ilin mortantajn = We found them (who were) dying.
La knabo vadis trans la riveron kaj trans ĝi trovis aliajn knabojn = The boy waded across the river, and, on the other side of it, found other boys.
Ni mem ĝin trovis, or, Ni ĝin trovis mem = We found it ourselves.
Sur la arbo sintrovis multe da birdoj = On the tree were (found themselves) many birds.
Mi netrovis ion (ion, not nenion, here) = I did not find anything.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "trovis" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
