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I'm Timothy, and this is Learncraft Spanish.

Today we're going to learn two new verbs that are both conjugated exactly like Ablar.

The first one is

Falta which means to lack or to be missing.

Here's a simple example. Three people are missing.

Falta three persons.

So the sense here is not that the people are lost, but that they're lacking from the group where their presence is expected.

Here's another example. Where are the rest? Three dogs are missing.

Where are the other? Don't they're the other, faultan three dogs are missing. Where are the other?

Faultan three perros.

Now, as I mentioned, the verb

Faltar also means to lack,

specifically when you're referring to what it is

that's missing something.

So, for example, the food lacks salt.

Okay, so there are some complicated things here,

both in the English and in the Spanish.

Let's start with the Spanish.

We're using an indirect object, and in this case a redundant indirect object. In this way, it's behaving kind of like gustar or importar,

where there's an indirect object, but not a direct object. Literally, this sentence is,

to the food, to it lacks salt. But this is the

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