気取る – Vocabulary details

気き取どる

Verb (5-dan, る, intransitive)

1. to be affected; to put on airs

かなり気き取どらない性せい格かくだ。They have a really unpretentious personality.

Verb (5-dan, る, transitive)

2. to act like (something one isn't); to pretend to be

as …を気取る

あたしは、悲ひ劇げきの主しゅ人じん公こうを気き取どっているだけかもしれない。I might just be pretending to be the protagonist of a tragedy.

state of mind

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to pretend to know everything; to pretend to be an expert

随ずい分ぶんと気き取どってるもんだな。

You're really putting on airs, aren't you?

かなり気き取どらない性せい格かくだ。

They have a really unpretentious personality.

正せい義ぎを気き取どったつもりはない。

I didn't intend to act like I was righteous.

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