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mancare

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See also: mancaré and mâncare

Asturian

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Verb

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mancare

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

Italian

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Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

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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 dollariI'm missing five dollars (literally, “five dollars is missing to me”)
  2. (intransitive) to lack (of a person) [with di] [auxiliary avere]
    lui manca di coraggiohe lacks courage
  3. (intransitive) to be left, to be remaining [auxiliary essere]
  4. (intransitive) to be absent [with a ‘from’], to miss [auxiliary essere]
    mancare a un concertoto 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 [with di (+ infinitive) ‘to do something’] [auxiliary avere]
  8. (intransitive) to not keep (a promise, commitment, etc.) [with a] [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

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Derived terms

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Further reading

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

Anagrams

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Spanish

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Verb

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mancare

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