Intentar encontrar o conseguir algo.
Tries to find or get something.
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See how the word “buscar” is used in sentences
La empresa busca un diseñador. — The company seeks a designer.
¿Quién busca un rincón tranquilo a la hora de comer? — Who seeks a quiet spot at lunchtime?
Nadie busca problemas un lunes por la mañana. — Nobody seeks trouble on a Monday morning.
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Download the app for free Spanish vocabulary testBuscar is the plain, everyday verb — it covers English look for, search and seek all at once, with none of the formality that makes seek belong to job adverts and headlines. Spanish gets that formality from the construction instead: se busca diseñador, designer wanted.
Watch the spelling change: the c becomes qu before e, so the past is busqué and the subjunctive busque. And buscar takes no preposition, exactly like seek: busco piso, not busco por piso.
buscar to look for
The same verb. Spanish does not split look for and seek the way English does — the register comes from the sentence, not the word.
encontrar to find
The result. Buscar is the effort, encontrar is the outcome, and Spanish keeps them strictly apart.
investigación research
Where English research and search share a root, Spanish uses a different word entirely.
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