manquer
French
Etymology
Borrowed from Italian mancare, derived from manco (“maimed”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /mɑ̃.ke/
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Verb
manquer
- (indirect transitive; object marked with preposition de) to lack, to be lacking in
- 2013, Zaz & Alex Renart, Appât de velours
- Vous manquez de patience, Monsieur le Renart ; allez donc vous coucher, car là il se fait tard.
- (please add an English translation of this quote)
- Je manque de temps. ― I don't have enough time.
- 2013, Zaz & Alex Renart, Appât de velours
- (intransitive; with indirect object represented by personal pronoun or marked with preposition à)
- Used as English uses to miss (to feel a sadness caused by the absence of something, distance from a place, and longing to reunite therewith) more literally meaning "to be missed by"
- 2021, Angèle, Bruxelles, je t'aime
- Paris m'appelle quand je veux rentrer chez moi, quand le ciel gris et la pluie me manquent ; je vais mieux quand j' te vois.
Bruxelles, je t'aime — Bruxelles, je t'aime ; tu m'avais manqué.- (please add an English translation of this quote)
- Tu me manques.
- I miss you.
- (literally, “You are missed by me./You are lacking to me.”)
- 2021, Angèle, Bruxelles, je t'aime
- to be missing or lacking to
- La sottise ne manque pas là. ― There is no lack of stupidity here.
- to miss out
- 1996', Noir Désir, À ton étoile
- Ça m'a manqué, tout ça, quand tu sauvais la face à bien d'autres que moi.
- (please add an English translation of this quote)
- 1996', Noir Désir, À ton étoile
- Used as English uses to miss (to feel a sadness caused by the absence of something, distance from a place, and longing to reunite therewith) more literally meaning "to be missed by"
- (transitive) to miss, to fail
- J'ai manqué mon train.
- I missed my train.
Conjugation
Conjugation of manquer (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | manquer | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | manquant /mɑ̃.kɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | manqué /mɑ̃.ke/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) | present | manque /mɑ̃k/ | manques /mɑ̃k/ | manque /mɑ̃k/ | manquons /mɑ̃.kɔ̃/ | manquez /mɑ̃.ke/ | manquent /mɑ̃k/ |
| imperfect | manquais /mɑ̃.kɛ/ | manquais /mɑ̃.kɛ/ | manquait /mɑ̃.kɛ/ | manquions /mɑ̃.kjɔ̃/ | manquiez /mɑ̃.kje/ | manquaient /mɑ̃.kɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | manquai /mɑ̃.ke/ | manquas /mɑ̃.ka/ | manqua /mɑ̃.ka/ | manquâmes /mɑ̃.kam/ | manquâtes /mɑ̃.kat/ | manquèrent /mɑ̃.kɛʁ/ | |
| future | manquerai /mɑ̃.kʁe/ | manqueras /mɑ̃.kʁa/ | manquera /mɑ̃.kʁa/ | manquerons /mɑ̃.kʁɔ̃/ | manquerez /mɑ̃.kʁe/ | manqueront /mɑ̃.kʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | manquerais /mɑ̃.kʁɛ/ | manquerais /mɑ̃.kʁɛ/ | manquerait /mɑ̃.kʁɛ/ | manquerions /mɑ̃.kə.ʁjɔ̃/ | manqueriez /mɑ̃.kə.ʁje/ | manqueraient /mɑ̃.kʁɛ/ | |
| (compound tenses) | present perfect | present indicative of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect | imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| past anterior2 | past historic of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| future perfect | future of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| conditional perfect | conditional of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| subjunctive | que je (j’) | que tu | qu’il, qu’elle | que nous | que vous | qu’ils, qu’elles | |
| (simple tenses) | present | manque /mɑ̃k/ | manques /mɑ̃k/ | manque /mɑ̃k/ | manquions /mɑ̃.kjɔ̃/ | manquiez /mɑ̃.kje/ | manquent /mɑ̃k/ |
| imperfect2 | manquasse /mɑ̃.kas/ | manquasses /mɑ̃.kas/ | manquât /mɑ̃.ka/ | manquassions /mɑ̃.ka.sjɔ̃/ | manquassiez /mɑ̃.ka.sje/ | manquassent /mɑ̃.kas/ | |
| (compound tenses) | past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | manque /mɑ̃k/ | — | manquons /mɑ̃.kɔ̃/ | manquez /mɑ̃.ke/ | — | |
| compound | — | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | — | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | — | |
| 1 The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en. | |||||||
2 In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way:
(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). | |||||||
Derived terms
- fille manquée
- manquer à l'appel
- manquer à sa parole
- manquer le coche
- manquer une case
- ne pas manquer d'air
- ne pas manquer de sel
- tu me manques
Related terms
- immanquable
- immanquablement
- manchot
- manquant
- manque
- manqué
- manquement
Descendants
- → Dutch: mankeren
- → Russian: манкировать (mankirovatʹ)
- → Esperanto: manki
Further reading
- “manquer”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.