Translation
as if; almost
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Examples
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He lay there as if dead.
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He talks as if he knew everything.
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Nearly a thousand men were there.
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He is like a brother to me.
, discessit.
He left as though nothing had happened.
Quasi is quam plus si, as if, and that origin explains its grammar: because the comparison is unreal, the clause it introduces takes the subjunctive, following the sequence of tenses rather than the English. Set in front of a single word, especially a numeral, it loses the conditional edge and simply means about or getting on for. English borrowed it whole as the prefix in quasi-legal and quasi-scientific.
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This word is taught in chapter 1, lesson 13: quasi, inde, respondeo and 11 more words.