"Jag hittar inte min plånbok."

Translation: I cannot find my wallet.

[Gaby754722]

False friend...I think that it was an agenda because "plånbok" sounds to me like "planning" and "book".

[Lundgren8]

Plån is actually a piece of hard paper, it used to mean a book with papers where you made notes and came to mean wallet later.

[Ragnar_the_Rat]

What's the difference between this sentence and "Jag kan inte hitta min plånbok"?

[Synthpopalooza]

And yet again, as with "no encuentro mis llaves" en español, this sentence again is one I have uttered too many times while trying to head to work.

[aquadrat]

Why is 'purse' not accepted?

[AlinaRisot]

Wondering the same thing!

[unfetteredferret]

how would you say I am not looking for my wallet

[Arnauti]

Jag letar inte efter min plånbok.

[CadklZ]

Since this translates to "i find not my wallet" how would you say this in past tense?

[sotnosen93]

"Jag hittade inte min plånbok."

[AndrewDoer1]

Why would, "I did not find your wallet" not work here?

[Arnauti]

That means Jag hittade inte din plånbok. Past tense and someone else's wallet.

[AndrewDoer1]

Sorry, I meant to reply with my. Don't always write what I mean. ;)

[NatalieBoa3]

It says I made a typo when I wrote can not rather than cannot. Is cannot American?

[CullenMowe]

I know cannot is supposedly the more common form when you take all English speakers into account, but as an American both would seem completely fine to me. Personally, I stick to my default can't unless something like formality forces me to use cannot.

[CedSgm7N]

Substitute the word "wallet" for "keys" and I say that all the time. Ha!

[Bush273381]

Please add purse as an alternative for those who speak British English.