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Old January 13, 2016, 02:25 PM
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Originally Posted by AngelicaDeAlquezar View Post
If you want to write the infinitive form of this verb, you must say "faltarle algo a alguien".
Whoops. Yes, thank you for the correction. For some reason, I intended to use the impersonal se to construct a general format for this verb, but I guess that is neither correct nor appropriate! So, the infinitive constructions would be...

faltarle algo (a alguien)
(alguien) faltar algo

The second line represents a solecism, where faltar is mistakenly treated as a transitive verb whose direct object is the algo that's "missing".
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