Usages of quaerere
Puer matrem quaerit et rogat: “Cur ad forum festinas?”
The boy looks for his mother and asks: “Why are you hurrying to the forum?”
Puer in horto clavem quaerit, sed eam non invenit.
The boy looks for a key in the garden, but he does not find it.
Servus sub mensa clavem quaerit.
The servant looks for a key under the table.
Discipula chartam in mensa ponit et stilum quaerit.
The female student puts the paper on the table and looks for the stylus.
Mater nondum domum redire potest, quia in foro panem adhuc quaerit.
Mother cannot return home yet, because she is still looking for bread in the forum.
Puella codicem quaerit, sed is in cista latet.
The girl looks for the book, but it is hidden in the chest.
Feles ex cellario exit et murem quaerit.
The cat goes out of the cellar and looks for the mouse.
Mater vestigia felis in atrio videt et felem in cellario quaerit.
Mother sees the cat’s tracks in the atrium and looks for the cat in the cellar.
Feles cellarium ingreditur et murem quaerit.
The cat enters the cellar and looks for the mouse.
Vitulus matrem quaerit et saepe mugit.
The calf looks for its mother and often lows.
Dum anates in lacu natant, gallus prope mensam ambulat et panem quaerit.
While the ducks are swimming in the lake, the rooster walks near the table and looks for bread.
Agnus balaturus matrem quaerit.
The lamb, about to bleat, looks for its mother.
Post tempestatem pueri ligna sicca quaerunt, quia ignis sine lignis diu manere non potest.
After the storm the boys look for dry wood, because a fire cannot last long without wood.
Sed mater respondet rumorem saepe falsum esse et rationem quaeri oportere.
But mother answers that a rumor is often false and that the reason ought to be sought.
Avus pectinem suum iterum amisit et nunc eum in cubiculo quaerit.
Grandfather has lost his comb again and now looks for it in the bedroom.
Cum tonitrus auditur, infans flens matrem quaerit.
When thunder is heard, the crying baby looks for mother.
Quaero tonsorem qui barbam avi diligenter curet.
I am looking for a barber who may carefully tend grandfather’s beard.
Avia filum longum quaerit, ut tunicam laceram consuere possit.
Grandmother looks for a long thread so that she can sew the torn tunic.
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