How do you say “feign” in Vietnamese?

Q: How do you say "feign" in Vietnamese?

"Feign" in Vietnamese is giả vờ (to feign), giả đò (to feign), làm bộ (to feign).

“Feign” in Vietnamese is giả vờ (to feign), giả đò (to feign), làm bộ (to feign).

Vietnamese words for “feign”

giả vờverb
Hanoi [zaː˧˩ vəː˨˩] · Saigon [jaː˨˩˦ vəː˨˩]giả dipping vờ falling
to feign; to pretend
giả đòverb
Hanoi [zaː˧˩ ʔɗɔ˨˩] · Saigon [jaː˨˩˦ ʔɗɔ˨˩]giả dipping đò falling
to feign
làm bộverb
Hanoi [laːm˨˩ ʔɓo˧˨ʔ] · Saigon [laːm˨˩ ʔɓow˨˩˨]làm falling bộ heavy
to feign; to pretend

Related Vietnamese words

giả trangverb
to feign
làm bộ làm tịchverb
to feign; to pretend
nói một đằng làm một nẻoverb
to feign
vờ-vĩnhverb
to pretend; to feign
bịa đặtverb
to fabricate; to trump up
bịaverb
to make up

Translations matched from English Wiktionary (translation tables and Vietnamese entries, via kaikki.org; CC BY-SA 4.0) and the NgonNgu English–Vietnamese dictionary, reviewed and edited; examples from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). The Listen button uses your browser's Vietnamese voice.