falta

Sentences
Meaning

faltar

  1. (intransitive) to be lacking, to lack, to not have (of a quality or circumstance)
  2. (intransitive) to be lacking, to lack, to not have (of a person)
  3. (intransitive) to remain
  4. (intransitive) to be absent, to be missing
  5. (intransitive) to miss

falto

Frequency

A1
Hyphenated as
fal‧ta
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˈfalta/
Etymology

In summary

Inherited from Vulgar Latin *fallita, from the feminine of *fallitus, 'vulgar' past participle of Latin fallere. The preservation of initial /f/ is irregular, but Coromines & Pascual reject the possibility of the word being borrowed. Compare Portuguese falta, Catalan falta, French faute.

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