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♡ 7 ways to say I MISS YOU in french ♡

TU ME MANQUES ( I miss you)
TU ME MANQUES BEAUCOUP ( I miss you a lot)
TU ME MANQUES DÉJÀ (I miss you already)
TU ME MANQUES TELLEMENT (I miss you so much)
J'AI TRÈS ENVIE DE TE VOIR (I feel like seeing you a lot)
J'AI HÂTE DE TE VOIR ( I can't wait to see you)
JE VEUX ÊTRE AVEC TOI LÀ TOUT DE SUITE ( I want to be right now with you)

LE VERBE MANQUER

To help us understand why the word order is so different, let’s start by taking a look at the verb manquer.

As a regular -er verb, manquer is fairly easy to conjugate, as it follows the straightforward rules of French conjugation.

Here’s the manquer conjugation in indicatif présent:

je manque

tu manques

il elle on manque

nous manquons

vous manquez

ils/elles manquent

Manquer can be translated as to miss in French, as well as to lack, to be absent, and to fail.

With these other potential translations in mind, let’s instead think of manquer as meaning to be absent. In this case, the unusual word order tu me manques becomes easier to understand: rather than I miss you, we can think of it instead as you are absent from me, or, more poetically, you are missing from me.

Keep in mind that, just like in English with the object pronoun them, the gender becomes ambiguous for the third-person indirect object pronouns lui and leur.

This explains our multiple possible translations for some of the following sentences:

Tu me manques. – I miss you.

Je te manque. – You miss me.

Je lui manque. – He misses me. – She misses me.

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