English to afrikaans meaning of

Die woordeboekdefinisie van die woord "voorgee" is om op 'n manier op te tree wat nie eg of waar is nie, dikwels met die doel om ander te mislei. Dit kan ook beteken om dit te laat lyk asof iets waar is of om iets te verbeel of te laat glo wat nie werklik is nie. Die woord kan as 'n werkwoord gebruik word, soos in "Hy het gemaak asof hy in die gesprek belangstel," of as 'n byvoeglike naamwoord, soos in "'n kamma-prinses."

Synonyms

  1. make-believe

Sentence Examples

  1. Decide ahead of time which of them will stare and which will pretend not to be scrutinizing me?
  2. Right now, I wish him here so I can hold him close and pretend all our problems never existed.
  3. Those who were honoured by a better acquaintance with him than the rest, declared that nobody could pretend to have ever seen him anywhere else.
  4. Arthur, kids are not adults, even though this state likes to pretend they are when they get in trouble.
  5. The thought of having to look at her father, to know what he had done, and to smile and pretend as though she were still ignorant was repulsive to her.
  6. I shall not pretend to describe the feelings with which I gazed.
  7. I pretend to concentrate on scraping the bottom of the yogurt container.
  8. I want to end this conversation, pretend the last few days never happened and disappear into spa heaven, but my heart drops between my knees.
  9. I had to pretend for the evening that I was a normal human girl, and enjoy my birthday.
  10. At least she could pretend that she knew what she was doing.