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vortäuschen in English:

1. feign


He feigned being ill.
‘OK,’ she said, feigning indifference.
Sir Cuthvell feigned a frown,

English word "vortäuschen"(feign) occurs in sets:

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2. feigns choking



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3. pretending


She was only pretending to be asleep.
It's no use pretending to make me believe that I believe things you don't believe!
It is no use your pretending that you know nothing.
Pretending to be a friend, the man robbed old people of their social security checks.
There is no point in pretending to be sick.
You need to stop pretending that you don't care.
J prefer to read the subtitles than listen to actors' voices pretending to be diffrent actors
Kano, pretending to cry has impact from being used sparingly!
She's just pretending to sleep; that's why she's not snoring.
Stop pretending to not understand.
Beth argued that Sally was only pretending to be innocent.
You're a good actor, pretending you were late because you don't feel well.

English word "vortäuschen"(pretending) occurs in sets:

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4. pretend


Tom wondered if he should pretend to appreciate the dinner Mary made for him.
Even if you know the truth, you had better pretend otherwise at present.
Don't pretend
for you i could pretend like i was happy when i was sad
If she finds out that that uniform was one I bought to get my former girlfriend to be a pretend 'high school girl' ...
Everyone knows that theatre is a world of let's pretend.
We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be.
Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions, and can never pretend to any other office than to serve and obey them.
The neighborhood has been gentrified. Now it's teeming with pretend hipsters slurping skinny lattes at Starbucks. They gather round coffee and free Wi-Fi like bees round a honeypot.
People sometimes pretend to be deaf when they hear a question they don't want to answer
He doesn’t pretend to enjoy the work, but he says that the atmosphere is much nicer than in the Houses of Parliament.
If you feel pain it means that you didn/t pretend.
I thought he was very rude when he pretended not to hear me.
Did you ever pretend to be ill so you didn't have to go to school?
Pedantry is properly the over-rating of any kind of knowledge we pretend to.

English word "vortäuschen"(pretend) occurs in sets:

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