fehlen

A1 Verb frequency rank #980

What fehlen means

Verb

to be missing, to be absent
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...
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)
to be felt

Forms

fehlen · fehlt · fehlte · hat gefehlt (an + Dativ)

Pronunciation

fehlen in a sentence

Das Buch, das ich suche, scheint zu fehlen.

The book that I'm looking for seems to be missing.

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fehlen is A1 German — one of the first words a beginner meets, ranked #980 of 13,000 by how often it appears in written German.

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