"pretend" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés

pretend verbo

pretend + sustantivo

Kolokacji: 11

pretend interest • pretend ignorance • pretend surprise • pretend indifference • pretend innocence • ...

verbo + pretend

Kolokacji: 9

try to pretend • stop pretending • like to pretend • want to pretend • go to pretend • ...

pretend + preposición

Kolokacji: 5

pretend to • pretend for • pretend in • pretend with • pretend at

pretend + adjetivo/adverbio

Kolokacji: 5

merely pretend • simply pretend • hardly pretend • politely pretend • initially pretend

Grup znaczeniowych: 2

(1) merely, simply

Kolokacji: 2

1. merely pretend = jedynie udaj merely pretend

She noticed that the others at her table were also merely pretending to eat.
Alicia concludes that he was merely pretending to love her as part of his job.
She had never figured out, in Father's case, whether he really enjoyed playing, or merely pretended to enjoy it for diplomatic purposes.
As an independent saleswoman, she found that customers merely pretended to listen to her.
He wasn't indifferent to their deaths, he was merely pretending to be.
Of course Phelps said she was merely pretending to be ill; was never looking so well & fine.
If you weren't merely pretending to like him, until a few months ago.
On one view, fictional names merely pretend to express propositions.
His guns were empty; he would have no chance to battle uniformed men who merely pretended to uphold the law.
In most cases, the literature is memorized and competitors are merely pretending to read the material.

2. simply pretend = po prostu udaj simply pretend

(2) hardly, politely, initially

Kolokacji: 3

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