The three ways to miss someone. "They miss him"

Question

I was thinking Perder, Extrañar, and hace falta. I was told not to use perder for missing a person but yes to use it (spanish habit to put an extra yes in there ) when you miss an appointment.

1. Le extrañan.
2. Le hace falta(n?)
3. Not possible with perder.

Are these right? Gracias.

it is perderse when you miss something. :) perderse una cita, to miss an appointment - 003487d6, ABR 30, 2010

Answer 1

Te extraño

Te hecho de menos

Me haces falta

All mean "I miss you".

Me perdí el partido: I missed the game.

Very good answer I have used the first two before infact it was a Peruvian girl who taught me te extraño :-) - FELIZ77, ABR 30, 2010

Answer 2

You forgot about "echar de menos" (used in Spain and other countries).

Answer 3

Le extrañan, le echan de menos, le echan en falta, le añoran

Answer 4

Hello. The first example is not quite right. Extrañar is a transitive verb, so it takes a direct object pronoun. That is, the correct way to say "they miss him" is lo extrañan, not le extrañan. Le extrañan would be an instance of leísmo, and would only make sense if you were talking to someone you call 'usted' and telling him that some other people miss him. Your second example should be "les hace falta" because (and, as I'm sure you know, it translates oddly in English) he is creating the lack in them, and there are more than one of them, so it must be les instead of le.

Answer 5

Le extrañan.

Is that a leísmo?

From our dictionary extrañar:

extraña mucho a sus amigos -> she misses her friends a lot

Notice that there is no i.o.p. meaning that sus amigos is a direct object; not an i.o.

(another way of saying it is that the "a" is the personal "a" used with direct objects and not the prepositional "a" used with i.o.p. clarifiying prepositional phrases.)

The le in the hacer falta(n) phrase is correct as this is like a gustar-like verb.

That's a good question. I suppose lo extrañaba could be it, or le extrañaba. It's hard to keep track since it's comprarle and not comprarlo by default, and some words seem to just fit either of these. - jeezzle, MAY 1, 2010