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is translated as what are you missing. i understand that if it is qu'est ce qui then what is the subject of yhe sentence, but dont understand how it gets to be what are you missing. i have looked at lesson on manquer and just getting further confused. there is a question here that is similay but i dont understand sorry

In English, "he doesn't go to bed before midnight" means pretty much the same thing as "he doesn't ever go to bed before midnight." I mean, I chose the correct answer but this kind of thing drives me crazy. Instead of being about what it says in French, it's about what's in the quiz maker's head as they translate it to English. The literal translation is "he doesn't go to bed before midnight" but if they want to contrast that with "he doesn't ever," then the intended meaning seems to be more like "he isn't going to bed before midnight." Actually, I'm trying to guess what the quiz maker thinks the difference in meaning is between those two English sentences and I give up.