"Munkát kerestünk."

Translation: We were looking for a job.

[mattlac]

How does "kerestünk" specify the progressive past of "we were looking for a job", in such a way that makes "We looked for a job" wrong??
(or is that an error?)

[gergo2]

Hungarian doesn't differentiate between progressive, perfect, and simple forms of the past tense. Any form that makes sense in English should be accepted.

[ray.meredith]

I've tried "We looked for work" and "We were searching for work." Neither was accepted. Reporting it.

[ray.meredith]

I said "searching" in a translation, but it was marked wrong. "Keres" doesn't also mean "search"?

[mizinamo]

What's the full sentence you wrote? "The police searched my car" doesn't mean the same as "The police searched for my car", for example -- did you use "search" on its own or together with "for"?