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Sentence

Está buscando trabajo.

Pronunciation

pronunciation

Translation

He's looking for a job.



Analysis


está
     1. v. informal second-person singular positive imperative of estar
     estar
          1. v. to be (have a temporary or permanent location in space)
          2. v. to be (denotes a copula, in a transient fashion)
          3. v. to be (auxiliary verb for the progressive/continuous aspect, preceding the gerund of the verb)
          4. v. to be in a state (in a passive voice sense)
          5. v. to be, stay (denotes a copula, in a transient fashion)
          6. v. to be to be done, to be (still) undone:
          7. v. to be in a long-term state (in specific idioms)
buscando
     1. v. gerund of buscar
     buscar
          1. v. to seek, search for, look for, try to find, to scour
          2. v. to look up (in a search engine, dictionary, etc.)
          3. v. to fetch, get, pick up
          4. v. to bring on (oneself), to ask for
trabajo
     1. n-m. work, job
     2. n-m. (physics) work
     3. v. first-person singular present indicative of trabajar
     trabajar
          1. v. to work
          2. v. to work in, work on, to workshop (+ en)
          3. v. (obsolete) to suffer




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