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Meaning of echar de menos



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Felipe Lorenzo del Río

echar de menos
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Portuguesismo derived from achar menos (find less). Missing, feeling the absence of something or someone, as comrade Jorge Luis Tovar Díaz also says and so well. Longing, feeling longing for what is not there or for someone absent. To this feeling, applied to the land, those of the northwest and especially the Galicians call it morriña. But it is universal.

  



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Jorge Luis Tovar Díaz.

Miss or notice the absence of a person or thing, recalling her with sadness. Synonym: wonder.

  










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