Illustration: In a Japanese apartment living room, a child stands inside a large cardboard box, feet planted wide and one hand gripping a wooden pot lid as a ship’s wheel. They peer ahead through an empty kitchen-paper tube with the solemn concentration of a captain navigating rough water.

あたかも

atakamo

as if, as though

Example sentences

彼かれはあたかもすべてを知しっているかのように話はなす。
He talks as if he knew everything.
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彼女かのじょはあたかも幽霊ゆうれいでも見みたかのように見みえた。
She looked as if she had seen a ghost.
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彼かれはあたかも有名ゆうめいな政治家せいじかであるかのようにふるまう。
He behaves as if he were a famous statesman.
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