mancare

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See also: mancaré and mâncare

Asturian

Verb

mancare

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

Italian

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

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)
    mi mancano cinque dollari ― I'm missing five dollars (literally, “five dollars is missing to me”)
  2. (intransitive) to lack (of a person)
    lui manca di coraggio ― he lacks courage
  3. (intransitive) to be left, to be remaining
  4. (intransitive) to be absent , to miss
    mancare a un concerto ― to miss a concert
  5. (intransitive) to be missed (of a person)
    Ci manca molto.
    We miss him very much.
    (literally, “He is missed by us very much.”)
  6. (intransitive) to lose strength
  7. (intransitive) to fail
  8. (intransitive) to not keep (a promise, commitment, etc.)
  9. (intransitive) to be at fault
  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

    Conjugation of mancàre (-are) (See Appendix:Italian verbs)
infinitive mancàre
auxiliary verb avére1, èssere2 gerund mancàndo
present participle mancànte past participle mancàto
person singular plural
first second third first second third
indicative io tu lui/lei, esso/essa noi voi loro, essi/esse
present mànco mànchi mànca manchiàmo mancàte màncano
imperfect mancàvo mancàvi mancàva mancavàmo mancavàte mancàvano
past historic mancài mancàsti mancò mancàmmo mancàste mancàrono
future mancherò mancherài mancherà mancherémo mancheréte mancherànno
conditional io tu lui/lei, esso/essa noi voi loro, essi/esse
present mancherèi mancherésti mancherèbbe, mancherébbe mancherémmo mancheréste mancherèbbero, mancherébbero
subjunctive che io che tu che lui/che lei, che esso/che essa che noi che voi che loro, che essi/che esse
present mànchi mànchi mànchi manchiàmo manchiàte mànchino
imperfect mancàssi mancàssi mancàsse mancàssimo mancàste mancàssero
imperative — tu Lei noi voi Loro
mànca mànchi manchiàmo mancàte mànchino
negative imperative non mancàre non mànchi non manchiàmo non mancàte non mànchino

1Transitive and in some intransitive meanings.
2In other intransitive meanings.

Derived terms

Further reading

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

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Verb

mancare

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