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Sentence

Er hat nur so getan als ob.

Translation

He just faked it.



Analysis


Er
     n. a person or animal of male gender, a male
     pron. (personal) he.
     pron. (personal) it (when the grammatical gender of the object/article/thing/animal etc., being referred to, is masculine (der)).
     pron. (personal) she (when the grammatical gender of the noun being referred to and designating a female person, is masculine (der)).
     pron. (personal, archaic) Alternative spelling of Er, tr=you (polite)
hat
     v. third-person singular present of haben
     haben
          v. (auxiliary) to have (forms the perfect and past perfect tenses)
          v. to have; to own (to possess, have ownership of; to possess a certain characteristic)
          v. to have; to hold (to contain within itself/oneself)
          v. to have, get (to obtain, acquire)
          v. to get (to receive)
          v. to have (to be scheduled to attend)
          v. to have (to be afflicted with, suffer from)
          v. to contain, be composed of, equal
          v. (impersonal, dialectal, with es) there be, there is, there are
          v. to make a fuss
          v. (colloquial with es and mit) to be occupied with, to like, to be into
          v. (colloquial with es and von or über) to talk about
nur
     adv. only, just, merely, simply
     adv. ever; at all
     adv. however, though
     conj. (chiefly colloquial) but
so
     adv. so, such, that
     adv. as (followed by an adjective or adverb plus wie in a statement of equality)
     adv. thus, like this/that, in this/that way, in this/that manner
     adv. then (in that case)
     adv. (colloquial) expletive; sometimes intensifying, sometimes with no noticeable meaning
     conj. (coordinating) thus, so, pursuant to the aforementioned premises
     conj. (subordinating, chiefly archaic, sometimes legal and regional) an, if
     part. (colloquial) (quotative particle, somewhat similar to be like but also combinable with other verbs)
     pron. (obsolete, relative) that, which, who
     interj. (tlb, colloquial) (a discourse marker in the beginning of a sentence indicating a topic having been dealt with and another being tackled)
getan
     Participle. past participle of tun
     tun
          v. To do (to perform or execute an action).
          v. (with dative) To do something (positive or negative) to someone.
          v. To make a difference; to be different.
          v. (somewhat informal, with “so” or “als ob”) To fake; to feign; to pretend.
          v. (chiefly colloquial) To put, to place, to add.
          v. (chiefly colloquial, with “es”) To work, to function.
          v. (chiefly colloquial, but acceptable in writing) Used with thepreceding infinitive of another verb to emphasise this verb
          v. (colloquial non-standard) (Used with thefollowing infinitive of another verb, often to emphasise the statement)
          v. (colloquial non-standard) (Used in the past subjunctive with the infinitive of another verb to form the conditional tense (instead of standard würde))
als
     conj. (subordinating, referring to time of occurrence) at (approximately) the same moment; when; while; as
     conj. (used with a comparison or as an exception) than
     conj. as; like; in the function of; in the form of
     conj. as if
     conj. (after negative pronoun) but, other than
ob
     conj. (qual, subordinating) Introduces an indirect question, a doubt. if, whether.
     conj. (conditional, obsolete, except in als ob) if, in case
     prep. (formal, literary, + genitive; rare with dative) on account of
als ob
     conj. as if, as though




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