mancare

See also: mancaré and mâncare

Asturian

Verb

mancare

1. inflection of mancar:
   1. first/third-person singular pluperfect indicative
   2. first/third-person singular imperfect preterite subjunctive

Italian

Etymology

From manco (adjective) +‎ -are, or from a Vulgar Latin *mancāre, from Latin mancus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /manˈka.re/
• Rhymes: -are
• Hyphenation: man‧cà‧re

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Verb

mancàre (first-person singular present mànco, first-person singular past historic mancài, past participle mancàto, auxiliary (transitive and in some intransitive meanings) avére or (in other intransitive meanings) èssere)

1. (intransitive) to be lacking, to be missing (of objects) [auxiliary essere]

   mi mancano cinque dollari ― I'm missing five dollars (literally, “five dollars is missing to me”)

2. (intransitive) to lack (of a person) [+ di (object)] [auxiliary avere]

   lui manca di coraggio ― he lacks courage

3. (intransitive) to be left, to be remaining [auxiliary essere]
4. (intransitive) to be absent [+ a (object) = from], to miss [auxiliary essere]

   mancare a un concerto ― to miss a concert

5. (intransitive) to be missed (of a person) [auxiliary essere]

   Ci manca molto.

   We miss him very much.

   (literally, “He is missed by us very much.”)

6. (intransitive) to lose strength [auxiliary essere]
7. (intransitive) to fail [+ di (infinitive) = to do something] [auxiliary avere]
8. (intransitive) to not keep (a promise, commitment, etc.) [+ a (object)] [auxiliary avere]
9. (intransitive) to be at fault [auxiliary avere]
10. (transitive, also sports) to miss (an opportunity, a goal, the ball, etc.)

    L'attaccante ha mancato il gol.

    The forward missed the goal.

Conjugation

    Conjugation of mancàre (-are) (See Appendix:Italian verbs)

infinitive	mancàre
auxiliary verb		avére1, èssere2	gerund		mancàndo
present participle		mancànte	past participle		mancàto
person	singular			plural
	first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative	io	tu	lui/lei, esso/essa	noi	voi	loro, essi/esse
present	mànco	mànchi	mànca	manchiàmo	mancàte	màncano
imperfect	mancàvo	mancàvi	mancàva	mancavàmo	mancavàte	mancàvano
past historic	mancài	mancàsti	mancò	mancàmmo	mancàste	mancàrono
future	mancherò	mancherài	mancherà	mancherémo	mancheréte	mancherànno
conditional	io	tu	lui/lei, esso/essa	noi	voi	loro, essi/esse
present	mancherèi	mancherésti	mancherèbbe, mancherébbe	mancherémmo	mancheréste	mancherèbbero, mancherébbero
subjunctive	che io	che tu	che lui/che lei, che esso/che essa	che noi	che voi	che loro, che essi/che esse
present	mànchi	mànchi	mànchi	manchiàmo	manchiàte	mànchino
imperfect	mancàssi	mancàssi	mancàsse	mancàssimo	mancàste	mancàssero
imperative	—	tu	Lei	noi	voi	Loro
		mànca	mànchi	manchiàmo	mancàte	mànchino
negative imperative		non mancàre	non mànchi	non manchiàmo	non mancàte	non mànchino

¹Transitive and in some intransitive meanings.
²In other intransitive meanings.

Derived terms

• mancanza

Further reading

• mancare in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Anagrams

• carname, menarca

Spanish

Verb

mancare

1. first/third-person singular future subjunctive of mancar