fingir
Sentences
Dado que no 🚫 tenía otra alternativa decide fingir ser un detective 🕵️ especializado en robos .
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🕵️
Since he had no other alternative, he decides to pretend to be a detective specializing in robberies.
Meaning
- to pretend (to act as though something is different from what it is)
- to fake, affect, feign
Concepts
give as an excuse
make as if
play the hypocrite
to feign
allege as excuse
Synonyms
trabajar como actor
hacer el mojigato
acusar falsamente
hablar de gracia componiendo
enlabiar engañando
mañear
traición hacer
Translations
Frequency
Hyphenated as
fin‧gir
Pronounced as (IPA)
/finˈxiɾ/
Etymology
In summary
Borrowed from Latin fingere. See also the inherited doublet heñir. Cognate with English feign and fiction.
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