"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

2. simply pretend = po prostu udaj simply pretend

How can that happen if I simply pretend it doesn't exist!
In a way, you simply pretended you were not there at all.
But simply pretending those resources were never discovered is no development strategy.
They simply pretend to all concerned that the baby is 100 percent genetically theirs.
We will simply pretend that three years have not existed.
Maybe it was better if she simply pretended not to hear her.
This is too important to simply pretend it hasn't happened!
She would simply pretend that nothing had happened, and see how it played.
She would have simply pretended not to notice that Martha was gone for three days.
People simply pretended to believe them because that was safer.

(2) hardly, politely, initially

Kolokacji: 3

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