The verb manquer is often very troublesome for English speakers of French because its structure is reversed when it applies to emotions compared to events.
How to use the verb manquer in French
Look at these sentences with the verb manquer in an emotional sense:
When using manquer in the emotional sense, you must reverse the structure so it is the person or thing that is lacking to you:
-> It's not Lise misses you. anymore, but literally You are lacking to Lise.
Now the 'missed' person or thing become the one doing the action of 'lacking'.
Introducing the person who is missing someone, who is "lacking" someone
You either use manquer à + [noun]:
or indirect pronouns me/te/lui/nous/vous/leur before manquer :
You cannot use manquer à + indirect pronoun:
Je manque à lui -> Je lui manque.
Je manque à lui -> Je lui manque.
It is different when talking about missing an event or a train, or lacking something in a pragmatic way.
See Using manquer (de) to say you/something miss or lack in French
As for using indirect pronouns, see Me/te/nous/vous = Me/you/us/you (French Direct and Indirect Object Pronouns) and Using lui/leur = him or her/them (French Indirect Object Pronouns)
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