Word · 単語
丸で
Reading まるで
as if
- 1 as if, as though, just like, much as, exactly like, as it were — usu. followed by a form of ようだ or みたいだ
- 2 (not) at all, (not) in the slightest, (not) a bit — with neg. sentence
- 3 really, completely, entirely, wholly, truly, quite
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Mastered counts as known everywhere (frontier, map, extension) but never appears in the quiz again. New wipes the review history for this item.
例文 · examples
まるで夢を見ているようだよ。
I feel as if I were dreaming.
sense 1 · as if
彼は私をまるで他人行儀に扱う。
He treats me as if I am a stranger.
sense 3 · really
ジョンソンさんはまるで生き字引です。
Mr Johnson is, as it were, a walking dictionary.
まるで眠れやしない。
I can't sleep at all!
まるで酔っているようだ。
She looks as if she were drunk.