befinden

Updated: June 6, 2025

"In a little while every bed will be filled," said the matrons. Outside one hut, with the sun on their faces, were four wounded Germans, Wurtemburgers and Bavarians, too ill to move just then. Each of them had lost a leg under the surgeon's knife. They were eating strawberries, and seemed at peace. I spoke to one of them. "Wie befinden sie sich?"

Philip Gibbs - Now It Can Be Told

And so, is it not natural that his greeting should be, if he is gravely polite, "Wie befinden Sie sich?" Lastly, the Anglo-Saxon greeting has its revelation of character no less than the others.

Various - Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 89, May, 1875