fehlt

Meaning

(form-of,present,singular,third-person) inflection of fehlen:
(form-of,plural,present,second-person) inflection of fehlen:
(form-of,imperative,plural) inflection of fehlen:

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fehlen

(impersonal,weak) for there to be a lack [with dative ‘to someone/something’ and an (+ dative) ‘of something’] (idiomatically translated by English lack with the dative object as the subject)
(weak) to be absent, to be missing [with dative ‘to someone’] (idiomatically translated by English not have with the German subject as the direct object and the dative object as the subject)
(weak) to be missed [with dative ‘by someone’] (idiomatically translated by English miss with the German subject as the direct object and the dative object as the subject)
(regional,weak) to be felt
(intransitive,weak) to be absent, to be missing
(dated,weak) to fail
(literary,weak) to sin, to err

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Es fehlt das gewisse Etwas .

There is a certain something missing.

Fehlt die Ellipse , dann ist die Funktion mit der Anwahl schon ausgeführt .

If the ellipse is missing, then the function with the selection is already executed.

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