echar de menos

== Spanish == === Etymology === Originally an archaic and dialectal Old Galician-Portuguese idiom, achar (de) menos (“to feel an absence”, literally “to find missing”), entering in Spanish as echar (de) menos (mistaking Old Galician-Portuguese achar (“to find”) (Spanish hallar), with echar (“to throw”), both verbs pronounced similarly and both of them with a multitude of idioms). === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /eˌt͡ʃaɾ de ˈmenos/ [eˌt͡ʃaɾ ð̞e ˈme.nos] Syllabification: e‧char de me‧nos === Verb === echar de menos (first-person singular present echo de menos, first-person singular preterite eché de menos, past participle echado de menos) (idiomatic, Spain, otherwise formal) to miss; to feel the absence of Synonyms: (most common in Latin America) extrañar, echar en falta Te echaré de menos. ― I'll miss you. ==== Conjugation ==== see echar === Further reading === “echar de menos algo o a alguien”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025