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s'en falloir

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French

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Pronunciation

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Verb

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s’en falloir

  1. (reflexive) to be missing
    Synonym: manquer
    Il s’en est fallu de peu.It was close, it was a close call.
    • 1837, Louis Viardot, L’Ingénieux Hidalgo Don Quichotte de la Manchefr.Wikisource, translation of El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Chapter II:
      Mais à peine se vit-il en chemin qu’une pensée terrible l’assaillit, et telle, que peu s’en fallut qu’elle ne lui fît abandonner l’entreprise commencée.
      But scarcely did he see himself on the road when a terrible thought assaulted him, and such that little was missing to make him abandon the enterprise he had started.

Conjugation

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This verb is defective, only conjugated in the third-person singular.

Derived terms

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