FALTAR in Portuguese
Faltar in Portuguese is one of those insanely useful verbs. You can say something is “em falta” to describe something that’s lacking or missing ➔ A cidade está em falta de água. (The city is lacking water.)
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faltar ➜ to lack, miss, be out of
present indicativefaltar to lack, misseufaltovocê, ele, elafaltanósfaltamosvocês, eles, elasfaltam Complete conjugation.
the expression: em falta
This expression using the verb FALTAR (to lack, run out of) means, to be out of. Use it to say things like: