gefehlt

Gefe hlt is the past participle of the German verb fehlen, which means to be missing, to lack, or to be absent. It is used with the auxiliary haben to form perfect tenses, for example: Es hat an Geld gefehlt. The core sense is that something is not present or is insufficient.

In typical usage, fehlen appears with a dative object introduced by the preposition an to express a lack or shortage of a resource, quality, or condition. Common constructions include Es fehlt an Zeit (There is a lack of time), Es fehlt an Geld (There is a lack of money), and Es fehlt an Mut (There is a lack of courage). In these phrases the thing that is missing is the dative object following an.

Gefehtl can also relate to the experience of missing a person or thing in time. With pronouns or nouns as the subject or object of fehlen, the sense is that someone or something was missed. For example, Du hast mir gefehlt means “I missed you” in the sense of you being absent in the past. In the present, Du fehlst mir expresses that someone is currently missed.

Grammatically, ge fe hlt functions as a standard past participle used with haben in compound tenses. Its usage is common in formal and informal German, and it often appears in news reports, essays, and everyday speech when describing shortages, absences, or the feeling of missing someone.

Related concepts include fehlen as a general term for absence or deficiency, and mangeln as a synonym in some contexts. In English, equivalents include to be missing, to lack, or to be missing someone.