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Haettu sana löytyi näillä lähdekielillä:
| Kieli | Käännökset |
|---|
| espanja | fingir, pretender, aparentar, simular |
| esperanto | kredigi, ŝajnigi |
| hollanti | voorwenden, doen alsof, veinzen, huichelen |
| italia | fingere, mostrare, simulare |
| japani | 装う (yosoou / yosōu), 見せ掛ける (misekakeru) |
| kreikka | προφασίζομαι (profasízomai), εικονικός (eikonikós) |
| latina | fingo, simulo, praetendō, ēmentior, simulō, cōnfingō, assimulō, fingō |
| portugali | fingir, aparentar, pretender |
| puola | udawać |
| ranska | feindre, simuler, prétendre à, faire semblant, faire semblant de, faire mine de, faire comme si, prétendre, prétexter, faire mine, maquiller |
| ruotsi | låtsas |
| saksa | vorgeben, tun, verstellen |
| suomi | teeskennellä, väittää valheellisesti, vaatia, tavoitella, esiintyä, uskotella, olla olevinaan |
| tanska | foregive, simulere, lade |
| tšekki | předstírat, líčit |
| unkari | tettet, színlel, szimulál, megjátszik |
| venäjä | делать вид (delat vid), притворяться (pritvorjatsja), сделать вид (sdelat vid), притвориться (pritvoritsja), претендовать (pretendovat), представиться (predstavitsja), представляться (predstavljatsja), косить (kosit) |
Määritelmät
Verbi
- (intransitive or with 'that' clause or 'to' infinitive) To speak or behave so as to give a false or simulated appearance.
- To engage in make-believe.
- (transitive) To feign, affect (a state, quality, etc.).
- (intransitive with 'to', formal, originally transitive) To lay claim (to an ability, status, advantage, etc.).
- (transitive, obsolete) To hold before, or put forward, as a cloak or disguise for something else; to exhibit as a veil for something hidden.
- (transitive, obsolete) To intend; to design, to plot; to attempt.
- (transitive, obsolete) To hold before one; to extend.
Adjektiivi
- Not really what it is represented as being; imaginary, feigned.
Substantiivi
- (childish, informal) The act of engaging in pretend play.
Esimerkit
- "After what past at Upton, so soon to engage in a new amour with another woman, while I fancied, and you pretended, your heart was bleeding for me!"
- ‘It's rather like a beautiful Inverness cloak one has inherited. Much too good to hide away, so one wears it instead of an overcoat and pretends it's an amusing new fashion.’
- I have nothing but contempt for people who hire ghost-writers. But at least most faux authors have the decency to pretend that they are sweating blood over "their" book.
- This let him know, / Lest, willfully transgressing, he pretend / Surprisal.
- Gap and other clothes manufacturers should stop using small subcontractors because they are difficult to control. Instead, they should open up their own fully-owned production facilities so that they cannot pretend ignorance when abuses are committed.
- Chiefs shall be grudged the part which they pretend.
- People observed the diversity of schools and the acerbity of their disputes, and decided that all alike were pretending to knowledge which was in fact unattainable.
- "The truth is, Ma'am," said Mrs. Grant, pretending to whisper across the table to Mrs. Norris, "that Dr. Grant hardly knows what the natural taste of our apricot is [...]."
- Luster claimed that the women had consented to sex and were only pretending to be asleep.
- Lest that too heavenly form, pretended / To hellish falsehood, snare them.
- Such as shall pretend / Malicious practices against his state.
- Pastorella […] Was by the Captaine all this while defended, / Who, minding more her safety then himselfe, / His target alwayes over her pretended […].
- pretend to = faire semblant de = faire mine de
- He pretended not to know what they were talking about.
- Children love to pretend.
- They pretended they were happier than they were.
- He pretends an affection that he does not feel.
- He pretends to enter the nobility.
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