Saying "to act like".....

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Permalink Reply by Marc Vonhalmen on November 9, 2009 at 7:17pm

There is not a general way of saying "someone is acting something" in French. It depends on the sentence, on the context, etc. In your sentence, you could translate as "Elle donne toujours l'impression d'être faible et fragile."

Other examples:
she just acts dumb --> elle fait l'innocente
you acted like a fool --> tu t'es conduit comme un imbécile
she's just acting like she's angry --> elle fait celle qui est en colère

As you can see, there's plenty of ways of saying it.

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Permalink Reply by Geish on November 12, 2009 at 3:28pm

Thank you very much, Marc. This has been a lot of help :)

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