fehlte
Meaning
- (first-person,form-of,preterite,singular,third-person) inflection of fehlen:
- (first-person,form-of,singular,subjunctive-ii,third-person) inflection of fehlen:
Frequency
New
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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Sentences
Nachdem sie 👩 einmal durchgespielt waren , fehlte es daher an 🔛 Motivation für wiederholtes Spielen .
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Once they had been played through, there was therefore a lack of motivation for repeated play.