Translation
as if; as though
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Examples
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He talks as if he knew everything.
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It was as if night had fallen.
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He answered as though he had not heard me.
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As if I did not know!
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The child looked at me as if with the eyes of a grown man.
introduces something contrary to fact, so the verb in its clause normally takes the conditional -us: . In front of a bare noun or phrase it needs no verb at all and means something like as it were. Note the ŭ: it is a semivowel that only ever appears after a vowel, in , , , , and never begins a syllable.
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This word is taught in chapter 2, lesson 4: kvazaŭ, ami, koro and 11 more words.