Buscamos un sitio tranquilo en el parque para estudiar.

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Breakdown of Buscamos un sitio tranquilo en el parque para estudiar.

• en: in
• para: to
• nosotros: we

Questions & Answers about Buscamos un sitio tranquilo en el parque para estudiar.

Why isn’t there a word for for after buscamos? In English we say look for.

In Spanish, buscar already includes the idea of for.

• English: to look for / to search for
• Spanish: buscar

So:

• Buscamos un sitio tranquilo… = We are looking for a quiet place…
• You do not say ✗ buscamos por un sitio or ✗ buscamos para un sitio in this meaning.

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How can buscamos mean both we look for and we looked for?

The form buscamos is the same for:

• present tense, nosotros: we look for / we are looking for
• preterite (simple past), nosotros: we looked for

Spanish often has identical forms for 1st person plural in present and preterite.

You know which one it is from context or from time expressions:

• Cada día buscamos un sitio tranquilo. → present (every day)
• Ayer buscamos un sitio tranquilo. → past (yesterday)

In your sentence, with no time marker, most people will understand it as present unless the context clearly talks about a past event.

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Why is there no nosotros before ?