"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

(2) hardly, politely, initially

Kolokacji: 3

1. hardly pretend = ledwie udaj hardly pretend

But the new welfare legislation hardly even pretends to deal with real problems.
The elders in Georgia hardly pretended to like it.
Indeed, the show hardly pretends to know precisely what it is.
The slaying had shaken him, and he could hardly pretend otherwise.
They could hardly pretend to be ready to mate.
I could hardly pretend to be doing a marketing survey.
The metallurgist was hardly pretending to fight now; he needed all of his strength to, breathe.
They could hardly pretend that had not occurred.
I can hardly pretend to have left civilization behind.
He could hardly pretend to be a deaf mute.

2. initially pretend = początkowo udaj initially pretend

3. politely pretend = uprzejmie udaj politely pretend

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