"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 • ...
1. try to pretend = spróbuj udać try to pretend
3. go to pretend = idź do udawać go to pretend
4. keep pretending = kontynuuj udawanie keep pretending
  • The rest of us keep pretending we're happy, or else just go numb.
  • What he did not want was to keep pretending.
  • "So then you're going to keep pretending to be crippled?"
  • I kept pretending, wishing the stuff tasted good, since the idea of eating had made me hungry.
  • He kept pretending that / was trying to sell to him.
  • While they listened, other men and women who had been with him for many years kept pretending to work.
  • "Why do you keep pretending you don't want to go out with Julie?"
  • However, the people around her keep pretending that nothing untoward has happened.
  • But she had to keep pretending, for the sake of the children.
  • I kept pretending to look out of the window and be unaware of what was going on behind me.
5. quit pretending = rzuć udawanie quit pretending
6. start pretending = zacznij udawać start pretending
(2) like, want, bother
Kolokacji: 3
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

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