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echar de menos

/eˌt͡ʃaɾ de ˈmenos/

verb/eˌt͡ʃaɾ de ˈmenos/

to miss; to feel the absence of

Te echaré de menos.I'll miss you.

Synonyms: echar en falta, extrañar

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).