No. 3,915 in Swedish

leta

"To search"

In a sentence

Jag letar efter mina nycklar.
I am looking for my keys.
'Letar' is used here to mean actively searching for something.
Han letade i garderoben efter sin jacka.
He looked in the closet for his jacket.
'Letade' is the past tense of the verb 'leta', meaning he actively searched in the past.
Vi ska leta efter ett nytt ställe att bo.
We are going to look for a new place to live.
'Leta' is used in its infinitive form to indicate the action of searching.

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