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Meaning of buscar | Babel Free

Verb CEFR B1
busˈkaɾ

Definitions

  1. to search for; to look for
  2. to procure
  3. to fetch, to pick up

Equivalents

Examples

“Et moytos de caualo et de pee buscarono por los mõtes quatro dias et nũca o poderõ achar.”

And many riders and peons looked for him in the mountains for four days, but they cound't find him

“c1350, K. M. Parker (ed.), Historia Troyana. Santiago: Instituto Sarmiento, page 30”

He researched and scrutinized the lands and the shores and the mountains that we mentioned, fetching and collecting the plants he needed

“Et demays foron buscar todos los outros coengos et personas que eran enna villa a suas casas, et por forza trouxeron a o cardeal dom Alfonso Perez, et a o cardeal dom Alfonso Gonzalez, o qual Alfonso Gonzalez sacaron da capela de San Johan apostollo onde estaba, et o boo coengo Rodrigo Rodriguez por que foron a sua casa; et trouxeronnos por força et contra suas voontades et enssarraronnos con os outros enno dito thesouro.”

they went to fetch every other canon and person that were in town at their houses; forcibly they brought cardinal Don Afonso Pérez, and cardinal Don Afonso González, who was removed from the chapel of Saint John the Apostle, where he was, and the good canon Rodrigo Rodríguez, for whom they went to his house; and they brought them forcibly and against each one's will and they locked them inside the treasury room

CEFR level

B1
Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.

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