まるで~かのように (as if, hypothetical simile)

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The hypothetical simile pattern まるで~かのように (and attributive ~かのような), 'exactly as if X / just like X / just as if X.' The か introduces a counterfactual or hypothetical edge — 'as if it were the case that X' — distinguishing it from the simpler まるで~ような (direct simile without hypothetical flavor). Modifies a verb adverbially (~かのように) or a noun attributively (~かのような). まるで signals that the comparison is figurative and should not be taken literally.

13 sentences

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It's just like rats fleeing a sinking ship.

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As soon as they entered the shopping street, Hina started looking around wide-eyed like a country bumpkin visiting the big city.

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The people followed the dictator like sheep.

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She talks to him as if he were a child.

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She treats me like a baby.

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She acted as if she didn't care in the slightest about what had happened.

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She has a pale face as if she were sick.

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Her tone of voice was as if she were my mother.

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She talks about Paris as if she's been there many times.

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She talks as if she had been to France.

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She looked as if she had been ill.

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She had the face of someone who'd been sick for a long time.

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She talks about that as if she knows everything there is to know.

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