Pretend

Definition

pretend /prÇ'tend/ v ၁။ ဟန္ေဆာင္သည္။ The time has come to stop pretending! ❍ She pretended (that) she was not at home when we rang the bell. ❍ The children pretended to drive the car. ❍ I don't pretend (ie claim) to know as much about it as he does. ၂။ အေယာင္ေဆာင္သည္။ …. ခ်င္ေယာင္ေဆာင္သည္။ She pretended illness as an excuse. ❍ His pretended concern did not fool me. ❏ pretender n ~ (to sth) (ကန္႔ကြက္ေနသည့္အၾကားမွ) ေတာင္းဆိုသူ၊ အေရးဆိုသူ။ ❏ pretend to sth [ PHRV ] ( fml ) …. ခ်င္ေယာင္ေဆာင္သည္။ ဟိတ္ဟန္ထုတ္သည္။ I don't pretend to any great understanding of music.

Examples

1. We were never going to make the marriage work
2. so why pretend?
3. [pretend to do something] : She closed her eyes and pretended to be asleep.
4. [pretend (that)] : I’m sorry
5. but I can’t just sit back and pretend it hasn’t happened.
6. [pretend otherwise] : I know you hate my haircut
7. so it’s no good pretending otherwise.
8. [pretend something] : It was useless to pretend innocence.
9. [pretend (that)] : They’re pretending they’re astronauts again.
10. [pretend to be someone/something] : The little girl was pretending to be a lion.
11. [pretend (that)] : I’m not going to pretend we achieved a lot.
12. [pretend to do something] : I don’t pretend to have all the answers.
13. [pretend to something] : He’s never pretended to any great knowledge of art.