"Die Antwort fehlt."

Translation: The answer is missing.

[hogthehedge]

What is the difference between this verb and Verpassen?

[Katja-z]

es fehlt- fehlen=to miss/to be missing- as in something is missing (the answer, some money, information...

verpassen=to miss - as in missing the train; "ich habe den Zug verpasst"-"I missed the train" http://www.dict.cc/?s=h%C3%A4ngen&play_first_audio=DE;
also can be used for missing a person "ich vermisse dich"-"I miss you" http://www.dict.cc/?s=I+miss+you+a+lot%21

[Dr.Zurg]

I came here to find it out as well.

[jamesfrank11]

what a logic puzzle: if the answer is missing how can i translate this without getting it wrong if there is no answer? the answer must be there is no question for you to answer therefore no response should be an option to put in the translate box. thnks duo xx

[duoderSie]

does fehlen only apply to a missing answer or can it also be for a wrong answer?

[tholenst2]

Only for a missing answer, never for a wrong answer.

"Die Antwort ist falsch." = "The answer is wrong."

[TiagoSaboga]

So how would one say "The answer misses the point?"

[GrasshopperPie]

"Die Antwort hat das Thema verfehlt." Or, "Die Antwort geht am Kern der Sache vorbei."

[Rose_Senpai]

This happens to me a lot (when the hints on hover are wrong or missing)... :/

[agiordan123]

Can fehlen be used to express the feeling of missing someone or a place? e.g. "I miss you" or "I miss Berlin".

[Guend1]

ich vermisse dich

[mizinamo]

Yes -- you can say Du fehlst mir, for example ("you are missing to me").

But for Berlin, you would probably say Ich vermisse Berlin.

[hectorlqr]

Die Antwoord!!!!!

[Tony380188]

Not sure why "The answer is lacking" is marked wrong.

[Katja-z]

@ Tony380188

My guess would be because "lacking" and missing do not mean the same.

You can say "the answer is lacking" but it means that that the answer actually exists but lacks something. Such as not having good reasoning, or someone not showing their work in an answer to a math problem.

In contrast, " the answer is missing" means that the answer is not there at all. Not even in part or a bad one. As in "Die Antwort fehlt'

https://www.dict.cc/?s=lacking

[volim_jastoze]

Is the verb fehlen just for 2nd and 3rd person or can it be applied to 1st person also (Ich fehle)?

[GrasshopperPie]

Fehlen can also mean to be absent. For example "Wegen Krankheit fehle ich sehr oft in der Schule." (Because of illness I'm often absent from school.) The word can be used in all the usual conjugations.

[mfischern]

Does anyone know what is the difference between fehlen and Verpassen? Ty!

[MyLegendaryBeing]

No! The answer is love! #Rupphire

[14rfe]

me in an exam!

[vitaminoid]

Sounds like "faltar" in Spanish.

[Lynilyn]

Hmm I put the answer is lost, which means it is missing but I got it wrong!

[GrasshopperPie]

"Fehlt" does not mean, or even imply "lost". Lost: verloren, abhandengekommen, verschollen. Wenn etwas fehlt, it is missing, it is simply not there. It may possibly be that it is missing because it got lost, but that information would have to be added.

[Lynilyn]

Ah ha this is my error my memory link went... Fehlt sounds like failed or fell and so was lost from sight ie missing grrrr

[Lynilyn]

Thank you!

[kumiko_w]

I wrote "the answer is gone," and it was not accepted.

[TheOnlyLouis]

The Audio is messed up!

[TimHowells]

Shouldn't "the answer is lost", be accepted?

[armindoost]

Ahhh, I have understood something strange. Let's elaborate . let's conjugate this verb "fehlen". The conjugation of this verb for first person (ich) is fehle. And this is pronounciation https://translate.google.de/m/translate?hl=de#en/de/fehle and for this word " viele" here is the pronounciation https://translate.google.de/m/translate?hl=de#en/de/viele . what is the difference in pronounciation. Can anyone has a good idea

[borQhuester]

I'm an Amer English speaker: I would pronounce the first e in 'fehle' with more of a long 'a' sound (such as 'fay-le'), and the ie in viele with a long 'e' sound (such as 'fee-le').

[jasonwill3]

"The answer is gone" ? What the hell is that!

[heniaith]

Seems that fehlen derives from Latin, so the similarity with Spanish "faltar" isn't entirely coincidental... http://www.wissen.de/wortherkunft/fehlen

[hoffmant99]

How would you say "The answer fails." How about "The answer is wrong."

[TrioLinguist]

"The answer fails" what is that supposed to mean?

[hoffmant99]

Not sure, when I see "fehlt" that is what I think. My bad.

[TrioLinguist]

The two words are indeed related (via Latin I believe), but the meanings have diverged significantly.

[LelandSun]

Suppose you are expecting a verbal answer and you get no response, would "Die Antwort fehlt" apply to this situation as well? Or, would one say instead "Es gibt keine Antwort"?

[QuentinWhite2]

Wrong. I put "missing" in the box and it marked it as wrong.

[MatthewFahey]

What is the difference between the pronunciations of the words "fehlt" and "fällt"? They sound practically indistinguishable to me. I feel like one of them should be "felt" and the other more like "faylt", but I don't know which would be which.

[TrioLinguist]

Fällt is pronounced roughly like felt, fehlt roughly like faylt. The audio here clearly pronounces fehlt as faylt.

[MatthewFahey]

Just what I was looking for! Danke schön!

[An1mal1]

Why would "There is no answer" be classed as incorrect?

[penguinchicken]

"The answer is insufficient" is not accepted but "The answer is lacking" is?

[eshan943679]

"Es fehlt die Antwort"? Since I saw an exercise for "Es fehlen keine Eier"?

[sushil_k]

es fehlt die Antwort. Is this correct?