hacer falta
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Spanish
[edit]Verb
[edit]hacer falta (first-person singular present hago falta, first-person singular preterite hice falta, past participle hecho falta)
- (idiomatic) to be necessary, have need of
- Hola señora, ¿le hace falta algo?
- Hello ma'am, do you need something?
- No hace falta que me lo digas.
- You don't need to tell it to me.
- Olvidé poner azafrán en la lista de la compra, así que si bien se lo mencioné a él ayer, hace falta recordarlo que lo necesito para el arroz.
- I forgot to put saffron on the shopping list, so even though I mentioned it to him yesterday, he needs to be reminded that I need it for the rice.
Further reading
[edit]- “hacer falta”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10