AS IF  好象

PRETENDing that what is NOT REAL IS REAL.
Hypernym
  • PRETENDCHEAT so as to CAUSE OTHERS to BELIEVE one COPULA:is RESEMBLING:as one SEEMS WHEN one is NOT.
    • CHEATCRIME of CAUSING OTHERS TO BELIEVE to be TRUE what one KNOWS is NOT TRUE AND TYPICALLY to CAUSE THEM THEREFORE TO SUFFER DAMAGE.
      • CRIMEWICKED ACT OFFENDING INTENSELY against an IMPORTANT LAW.
        • ACTMOVE OR NOT MOVE CONFORMING to one's SELF:own DECIDE:decision....
  • Woerterbuch der Philosophie. Neue Beitraege zu einer Kritik der Sprache ( MAUTHNER WP 1924) p. I.25

  • Die Philosophie des Als Ob: System der theoretischen, praktischen und religioesen Fiktionen der Menschheit auf Grund eines idealistischen Positivismus. ( VAIHINGER 1911) p.

Words

如  rú OC: nja MC: ȵi̯ɤ 93 Attributions
    Syntactic words
  • vt(0)oSfigurativeit is as if SCH
  • vt+S.postadVLY 祭如神在"sacrifice as if the spirits were present": as if S (where S can be a 'minor sentence' with an understood subject"
  • vt+V(0)main verb天下如一"the whole world acted as if they were one person": be as if one V-s; act as if one V-s; be as if V-ing; feel as if one is V-ing
  • vt+V1.postadV2as if
  • vt+V1.postadV2as if V-ing誦言如醉"declaim one's words as if one were drunk": as if 
  • vt+V[0]V=passiveit is as if V-edCH
  • vtoN1.postadVtoN2N1 compared to the object N2as if (verbing) N2CH
  • vtoV.postvtoNN=SUBJ of V事君如在國"serve the ruler as if he was present in the state": (verb the objectN) as if N V-edCH
若  ruò OC: njaɡ MC: ȵi̯ɐk 75 Attributions

Ruò 若 is apparently sometimes used in ways that tempt us to subsume it into this synonym group, and one is tempted to translate the troublesome usage by the suitably vague English "as it were". [METALINGUISIC?]

    Syntactic words
  • vt+V1.postadV2V2 as if V1-ing
  • vt+V[0]be as if V-ing; as it were, German: gleichsam; Danish: ligesom; it is as if
  • vt0oV(0)It is as if one V-sCH
  • vt[0]+V1.postadV2SUBJ of V1 = SUBJ of V2視若營四海“stare as if one was making plans for all within the four seas": V2 as if V1-ingCH
  • vtoN1.postadVtoN2as if it was, i.e. Vt the object N2 as if it was an N1CH
  • vtoNPab{S}it is as if S
  • vtoNPab{S}.postVhe VERBed as if Sn
  • vtoSit is as if S; as when
  • vtoS.postadVhe VERBed as if S
  • vtoV.ad然若易 seeming to
似  sì MC: ziX OC: sɢlɯʔCH 11 Attributions
    Syntactic words
  • vt0oV(0)而似不自己"It is as if it does not originate in oneself": it is as if it does not VCH
  • vt[0]oN.postadVsubjects compared屏氣似不息者"block the air as if one was not breathing": like; as if
  • vt[0]oV1.postadV2嗒焉似喪其耦"feel lost as if one had lost one's counterpart": to V2 as if V1-ingCH
  • vtoS.postadVas if
  • vtoV[0]look as if it was V-ingCH
猶  yóu MC: yuw OC: k-luCH 7 Attributions
    Syntactic words
  • vt[0]oN1.postadVt(oN2)object N1 compared with object N2驚猶鬼神"be scared of them as of ghosts or spirits":(to V) as if the understood subject was an NCH
  • vtoV[0].postadV猶一也"as if it was united": be as if V-ingCH
譬若  pì ruò MC: phjieH nyae OC: pheɡs njaɡCH 3 Attributions
    Syntactic words
  • VPtoNPab{V}be as if one were to (quite unrealistically)CH
譬猶  pì yóu MC: phjieH yuw OC: pheɡs k-luCH 1 Attribution
    Syntactic words
  • VPt V[0]be as if V-ingCH
而  ér MC: nyi OC: njɯLZ 1 Attribution
    Syntactic words
  • vt+V1.postadV2as if V-ing= rú 如: to V2 as if V1-ingLZ
猶  yóu OC: k-lu MC: jɨu
由  yóu OC: liw MC: jɨu
由  yóu OC: liw MC: jɨu 1 Attribution
    Syntactic words
  • vt+V1.postV2(The SUBJECT V2-s) as if it V1-ed
譬如  pì rú MC: phjieH nyo OC: pheɡs njaCH 1 Attribution
    Syntactic words
  • VPtoN.adSthe subjects predicated as if V-ingCH
  Click here to add pinyin MC:  OC: CH 0 Attributions
    Syntactic words
  • vt V(0)be as ifCH

Existing SW for

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