Faltar means ‘to lack/miss’. It is a regular -ar verb: falta (present), faltó (preterite), faltado (past participle), faltando (gerund). It is mostly used in the third person with an indirect object pronoun, like gustar: me falta, me faltan.
Faltar in use
Falta una hora para llegarThere's an hour to go until we arrive
Le faltan dos ingredientesShe's missing two ingredients
Me falta tiempoI lack time
On this pageIndicative
Indicative
Statements of fact, certainty and objective reality
The other perfect tenses (haber + past participle) and the past subjunctive
The imperfect subjunctive has two forms: -ra (more common in speech) and -se (more formal; still heard in speech in Spain, mainly written in Latin America). Both are equally correct and interchangeable.
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