pretend
/pɹəˈtɛnd/ verbe A2En français : prétendre à, prétendre, feindre, faire semblant
- To speak or behave so as to give a false or simulated appearance. · You don't have to pretend that the soup tastes fine.· You don't have to pretend to like the soup.
- To engage in make-believe. · She moved her fingers across the desk, pretending to play the piano.· She didn't have a real piano to play, so she just pretended.
- To feign, affect (a state, quality, etc.). · She's pretending illness to get out of the business meeting.· He pretended an air of indifference that he'd never assumed before.
- To lay claim (to an ability, status, advantage, etc.). · The family's exile was intended to stop them pretending to the throne.
He/she/it pretends · Prétérit pretended · Participe passé pretended · Forme en -ing pretending
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- Prétérit
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- Participe passé
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- Forme en -ing
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Dans la bibliothèque
For this purpose she jumped upon a peg, and suspending herself from it, pretended to be dead.
“God forgive me,” said the young man, “for rejoicing at happiness derived from the misery of others, but, Heaven knows, I did not seek this good fortune; it has happened, and I really cannot pretend to lament it.
He returned to his den, and lying down there, pretended to be sick, taking care that his sickness should be publicly known.
The Wild Sow, whom you see daily digging up the earth, wishes to uproot the oak, so she may on its fall seize our families as food for her young.” Having thus frightened the Eagle out of her senses, she crept down to the cave of the Sow, and said, “Your children are in great danger; for as soon as you go out with your litter to find food, the Eagle is prepared to pounce upon one of your little pigs.” Having instilled these fears into the Sow, she went and pretended to hide herself in the hollow of the tree.
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