extrañar

/eɡstɾaˈɲaɾ/ · A2 · verb

to cause to find odd/strange

extrañar = extraño (strange) + -ar: it feels strange without you

From Latin extraneus (outside, foreign), the root of English strange and extraneous. To extrañar someone is to feel their absence as something odd. Te extraño = I miss you; me extraña = it strikes me as strange.

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