Translation for "il lui manquait" to english

Il lui manquait

• he was missing
• it lacked

Translation examples

he was missing

il lui manquait plein de dents, mais je l'aimais quand même.
he was missing a lot of teeth, but I loved him anyway.

Tu ne lui as pas demandé pourquoi il lui manquait de la peau sur le dos ?
Didn't you ask him why he was missing skin there?

Il lui manquait une chaussure.
He was missing a shoe.

Il avait peut-être des dégats au cerveau et pouvait vraiment entendre, mais il lui manquait une oreille.
Actually, I think he might've been brain damaged and maybe he really could hear, but he was missing an ear.

Il lui manquait l'étincelle qu'on cherche chez un homme.
He was missing that spark you look for in a man.

Apparemment, ils ont identifié la victime parce qu'il lui manquait une dent.
So apparently they I.D.'d the victim because he was missing a little tooth.

it lacked

Il manquait un engagement ferme en ce qui concerne les réductions d'émissions.
It lacked a firm commitment to emission cuts.

Mais il lui manquait les mécanismes de suivi ou de vérification de l'application de ses dispositions.
However, it lacked mechanisms for monitoring or verifying compliance.