manquer

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French[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from Italian mancare, derived from manco (“maimed”).

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /mɑ̃.ke/
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Verb[edit]

manquer

  1. (indirect transitive; object marked with preposition de) to lack, to be lacking in
    • 2013, Zaz & Alex Renart, Appât de velours:
      Vous manquez de patience, Monsieur le Renart ; allez donc vous coucher, car là il se fait tard.
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)
    Je manque de temps. ― I don't have enough time.
  2. (intransitive; with indirect object represented by personal pronoun or marked with preposition à)
    1. Used as English uses to miss (to feel a sadness caused by the absence of something, distance from a place, and longing to reunite therewith) more literally meaning "to be missed by"
      • 2021, Angèle, Bruxelles, je t'aime:
        Paris m’appelle quand je veux rentrer chez moi
        Quand le ciel gris et la pluie me manquent ; je vais mieux quand j’ te vois. […]
        Bruxelles, je t’aime — Bruxelles, je t’aime ; tu m’avais manqué.
        Paris calls me when I want to go back home
        When I miss the grey sky and the rain; I feel better when I see you. […]
        Brussels, I love you – Brussels, I love you; I had missed you.
      Tu me manques.
      I miss you.
      (literally, “You are missed by me./You are lacking to me.”)
    2. to be missing or lacking to
      La sottise ne manque pas là. ― There is no lack of stupidity here.
    3. to miss out
      • 1996', Noir Désir, À ton étoile
        Ça m’a manqué, tout ça, quand tu sauvais la face à bien d’autres que moi.
        I missed out on that, all of that, when you were saving face for many more than me.
  3. (transitive) to miss, to fail
    J’ai manqué mon train.
    I missed my train.

Conjugation[edit]

Conjugation of manquer (see also Appendix:French verbs)
infinitive simple manquer
compound avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1 simple manquant
/mɑ̃.kɑ̃/
compound ayant + past participle
past participle manqué
/mɑ̃.ke/
singular plural
first second third first second third
indicative je (j’) tu il, elle, on nous vous ils, elles
(simple
tenses) 		present manque
/mɑ̃k/ 		manques
/mɑ̃k/ 		manque
/mɑ̃k/ 		manquons
/mɑ̃.kɔ̃/ 		manquez
/mɑ̃.ke/ 		manquent
/mɑ̃k/
imperfect manquais
/mɑ̃.kɛ/ 		manquais
/mɑ̃.kɛ/ 		manquait
/mɑ̃.kɛ/ 		manquions
/mɑ̃.kjɔ̃/ 		manquiez
/mɑ̃.kje/ 		manquaient
/mɑ̃.kɛ/
past historic2 manquai
/mɑ̃.ke/ 		manquas
/mɑ̃.ka/ 		manqua
/mɑ̃.ka/ 		manquâmes
/mɑ̃.kam/ 		manquâtes
/mɑ̃.kat/ 		manquèrent
/mɑ̃.kɛʁ/
future manquerai
/mɑ̃.kʁe/ 		manqueras
/mɑ̃.kʁa/ 		manquera
/mɑ̃.kʁa/ 		manquerons
/mɑ̃.kʁɔ̃/ 		manquerez
/mɑ̃.kʁe/ 		manqueront
/mɑ̃.kʁɔ̃/
conditional manquerais
/mɑ̃.kʁɛ/ 		manquerais
/mɑ̃.kʁɛ/ 		manquerait
/mɑ̃.kʁɛ/ 		manquerions
/mɑ̃.kə.ʁjɔ̃/ 		manqueriez
/mɑ̃.kə.ʁje/ 		manqueraient
/mɑ̃.kʁɛ/
(compound
tenses) 		present perfect present indicative of avoir + past participle
pluperfect imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle
past anterior2 past historic of avoir + past participle
future perfect future of avoir + past participle
conditional perfect conditional of avoir + past participle
subjunctive que je (j’) que tu qu’il, qu’elle que nous que vous qu’ils, qu’elles
(simple
tenses) 		present manque
/mɑ̃k/ 		manques
/mɑ̃k/ 		manque
/mɑ̃k/ 		manquions
/mɑ̃.kjɔ̃/ 		manquiez
/mɑ̃.kje/ 		manquent
/mɑ̃k/
imperfect2 manquasse
/mɑ̃.kas/ 		manquasses
/mɑ̃.kas/ 		manquât
/mɑ̃.ka/ 		manquassions
/mɑ̃.ka.sjɔ̃/ 		manquassiez
/mɑ̃.ka.sje/ 		manquassent
/mɑ̃.kas/
(compound
tenses) 		past present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
pluperfect2 imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative – tu – nous vous –
simple — manque
/mɑ̃k/ 		— manquons
/mɑ̃.kɔ̃/ 		manquez
/mɑ̃.ke/ 		—
compound — simple imperative of avoir + past participle — simple imperative of avoir + past participle simple imperative of avoir + past participle —
1 The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en.
2 In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way:
  • past historic → present perfect
  • past anterior → pluperfect
  • imperfect subjunctive → present subjunctive
  • pluperfect subjunctive → past subjunctive

(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

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Descendants[edit]

  • → Dutch: mankeren
  • → Russian: манкировать (mankirovatʹ)
  • → Esperanto: manki

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