fehlte

Meaning

  1. (first-person,form-of,preterite,singular,third-person) inflection of fehlen:
  2. (first-person,form-of,singular,subjunctive-ii,third-person) inflection of fehlen:

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fehlen

  1. (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)
  2. (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)
  3. (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)
  4. (regional,weak) to be felt
  5. (intransitive,weak) to be absent, to be missing
  6. (dated,weak) to fail
  7. (literary,weak) to sin, to err

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