Buscar in the Indicative Preterite The Indicative Preterite of buscar is used to talk about actions completed in the past, at a specific point in time. For example, " busqué ", meaning " I searched ". In Spanish, the Indicative Preterite is known as "El Pretérito Indefinido". The red dot () above denotes an irregular conjugation.

In the preterite tense, buscar has a stem change when conjugating to the first person form, yo. As shown in the conjugation chart below, this pronoun uses the stem ‘busq-’. The preterite conjugations of ‘buscar’ refer to things someone searched at a specific moment in the past. Busqué en todos lados.