Extrañar...Echar de menos...Faltar?

[NiCACHiCA]

@AngelicaDeAlquezar: arrogant, yes! haha ...although, could you say the exact same sentence as a question, asking "do you miss me?"?


@chileno: is "me haces falta" and "Me faltas" interchangeable for "I miss you"? Thank you so much for the "translations". I really do try my hardest to not translate as I'm reading an article or something of that nature. I don't know if I can truly explain it (how my brain seems to work), but when I'm trying to learn a part of the language, it seems to help me to understand and grasp the concept if I can see how something translates literally from Spanish to English, at least until I can understand and start using it on my own.

If I wanted to tell someone they were missing someone from their group, would I say: "Te falta alguien"
...or (for humor sake) say your spouse forgot to put on their pants and you wanted to ask if they were forgetting something, could you say "¿Te falta algo?"


And here is my attempt at a few examples of my own to see if I understand...

Le faltas. (He/She misses you.)
Le falta su novia. (He misses his girlfriend.)
Me falta mi carro. (I miss my car.) (It's in the shop.)
Nos falta la playa. (We miss the beach.)
Te faltamos. (You miss us.)
¿Te falto? (Do you miss me?)



---How would you say (if you left for a few moments and came back in the room) "Did you miss me?"

[hermit]

claro,chileno

(Aparte) - Uno de mis amigos bilinguales que me enseñaron más que
puedo comunicar (por falta de práctica) era Chileno (Lima).

La manera de hablar, y el acento, y la pronunciación más refrescante
en aquel entonces al empezar mis estudios hispánicos (pasando por
estudios de una cantidad de dialectos/acentos) era del castellano Chileno.

[chileno]

Originally Posted by NiCACHiCA

@chileno: is "me haces falta" and "Me faltas" interchangeable for "I miss you"? Thank you so much for the "translations".

You're welcome.

Remember:

Me haces falta - I miss you
Me falta - Something/someone is missing or there is a lack of (not present)

And also me faltas = I need you.

Originally Posted by NiCACHiCA

I really do try my hardest to not translate as I'm reading an article or something of that nature. I don't know if I can truly explain it (how my brain seems to work), but when I'm trying to learn a part of the language, it seems to help me to understand and grasp the concept if I can see how something translates literally from Spanish to English, at least until I can understand and start using it on my own.

Please try to translate as you read, it will be slower (in the beginning) but you'll get it! (much faster than the rest)

Originally Posted by NiCACHiCA

If I wanted to tell someone they were missing someone from their group, would I say: "Te falta alguien"

Yes.

Originally Posted by NiCACHiCA

...or (for humor sake) say your spouse forgot to put on their pants and you wanted to ask if they were forgetting something, could you say "¿No Te falta algo?"

You would ask "aren't missing something?", wouldn't you?

Originally Posted by NiCACHiCA

And here is my attempt at a few examples of my own to see if I understand...

Le faltas. (He/She misses you.) rather, She needs you
Le falta su novia. (He misses his girlfriend.) He needs his girlfriend.
Me falta mi carro. (I miss my car.) (It's in the shop.) I need my car
Nos falta la playa. (We miss the beach.)
Te faltamos. (You miss us.)
¿Te falto? (Do you miss me?)

See? When you use the "hace falta" is when it means more extrañar...

Originally Posted by NiCACHiCA

---How would you say (if you left for a few moments and came back in the room) "Did you miss me?"

¿Me extrañaste?

Originally Posted by hermit

claro,chileno

(Aparte) - Uno de mis amigos bilinguales que me enseñaron más que
puedo comunicar (por falta de práctica) era Chileno (Lima).

La manera de hablar, y el acento, y la pronunciación más refrescante
en aquel entonces al empezar mis estudios hispánicos (pasando por
estudios de una cantidad de dialectos/acentos) era del castellano Chileno.

¿En Perú? ¿or you meant Santiago, in Chile?

[AngelicaDeAlquezar]

Originally Posted by NiCACHiCA

@AngelicaDeAlquezar: arrogant, yes! haha ...although, could you say the exact same sentence as a question, asking "do you miss me?"?

It could be, but as I told you, it's not the most common way to say it. (I only tried to explain the conjugation of "faltar", if used like that).
One would rather say:
- ¿Me extrañas?
- ¿Me echas de menos?
- ¿Me echas en falta?
- ¿Te hago falta?

Originally Posted by NiCACHiCA

If I wanted to tell someone they were missing someone from their group, would I say: "Te falta alguien" Right!

Originally Posted by NiCACHiCA

...or (for humor sake) say your spouse forgot to put on their pants and you wanted to ask if they were forgetting something, could you say "¿No te falta algo?" ("No" adds the emphasis on the sarcastic tone)

About your attempts, you have made the right expressions with "faltar", but we would rather choose any other alternative:

Le faltas. (He/She misses you.) -> But "Te extraña"/"Te echa de menos"/"Te echa en falta" would be better.
Le falta su novia. (He misses his girlfriend.) -> But "Extraña a su novia"/"Echa de menos a su novia"/ "Echa en falta a su novia" would sound better.
Me falta mi carro. (I miss my car.) (It's in the shop.) -> Here "faltar" is a good choice, in the sense of "necesito mi coche" (I need my car -- there are things I can't do because I don't have it), although one can also say "extraño mi coche". Here, one doesn't say "echar de menos" unless you've sold your car or it was lost in an accident or something that would mean you won't have that car back ever.

Nos falta la playa. (We miss the beach.) -> This would be said, for example, when you're in a place away from the beach, but the weather is specially hot, so you'd like to have your swimsuit on and the sea in front of you.
We would rather say "extrañamos la playa" "quisiéramos estar en la playa" (which would mean we'd like to be on the beach)


Te faltamos. (You miss us.) -> But "nos extrañas", "nos echas de menos", "nos echas en falta" would sound much better. Also "te hacemos falta" (but this could be interpreted as "we could do some service for you"... context would clarify.)


¿Te falto? (Do you miss me?) -> But alternatives have been explained above.

Originally Posted by NiCACHiCA

--How would you say (if you left for a few moments and came back in the room) "Did you miss me?"

Just like the ones above:

- ¿Me extrañaste? (first best)
- ¿Me echaste de menos? (second best)
- ¿Me echaste en falta?
- ¿Te hice falta?

[CrOtALiTo]

Originally Posted by NiCACHiCA

Up until now, I thought to talk about missing someone you would use "extrañar" or "echar de menos" (te extraño, te echo de menos). But I recently heard "faltar" used on my telenovela when someone was explaining she missed her sister who had just gotten married and was leaving her parent's house.

I understand "faltar" can be translated to "miss", but I wasn't sure if that was a common translation. I guess my question is can all three of these be used interchangeably? And my memory is probably bad, but I thought the girl said something along the lines of "le falta", but I thought it should be "le falto" for "I miss her/him". Is that right?

(My Spanish is used mainly for LA...so any knowledge of what is most common in LA would be great!)

Thanks in advance!!

When you try to demonstrate love or dolefulness for someone who doesn't be with you.

You can say.
Me haces falta.
I missing you.
I need you.
I don't want alone.
I don't want to be without you.


I don't know in those examples can demonstrate you that exist the dolefulness in a person loss.

[bobjenkins]

Originally Posted by AngelicaDeAlquezar

@NiCACHiCA: "I'm lacking to you" would be a too literal translation, but I think it works. The idea is that everything in your environment is fine, but I'm not there to make it complete. (How arrogant! Right?)
But the usual sentence is "me faltas (tú)". Which is rather something nice to tell to a loved person.


@Bob: Sorry, but your "correct sentence" is actually incorrect:
Yo falto el tiempo
A mí me falta el tiempo. -> I don't have time - I lack time (?)

And "Yo te falto" actually means "You miss me", not "I miss you", which would rather be "Tú me faltas".

Bueno, estoy confundido . the so called "correct sentence" turned out to be an oxymoron
@Nica sorry to confuse you

Ya he dormido y me gustaría tratar de nuevo, como dijo nica , es lo mismo como gustar...
tengo razón allí?

indirect object pronoun, person doing the missing	person or object being missed	traducción
nos	faltas	we miss you / you are lacking to us
nos	gustas	we like you
te	falto	you miss me
le	faltas a él	he misses you
¿os	faltamos?	you miss us?
les	faltáis a ellas	they miss you all
Me	falta esa mujer	I miss that woman

espero que tengan razón
muchas gracias

PD: Después de revisarlo unas pocas veces, he descubierto que "faltar" requiere los objetos indirectos , mientras el verbo extrañar puede ser acompañado por los objetos directos o indirectos, ¿verdadero?