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English[edit]
Preposition[edit]
as for
- Regarding; about; concerning.
I can't teach that class today: I'm sick. As for the rest of the teachers, they are still on leave.
1943 November – 1944 February (date written; published 1945 August 17), George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], Animal Farm […], London: Secker & Warburg, published May 1962, →OCLC: As for the pigs, they could already read and write perfectly.
Usage notes[edit]
- As for is almost always put at the beginning of a sentence.
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Translations[edit]
regarding; about
- Arabic: أَمَّا ... فَـ (ar) (ʔammā ... fa-)
- Catalan: quant a (ca), pel que fa a
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 至於／至于 (zh) (zhìyú), 關於／关于 (zh) (guānyú)
- Czech: pokud jde o
- Dutch: wat betreft, wat ... betreft
- Finnish: mitä tulee
- French: quant à (fr), pour (fr)
- German: was ... angeht, was ... betrifft
- Hebrew: בנוגע ל־ (benogea l-)
- Hindi: ... तो (hi) (... to)
- Hungarian: ami …-t illeti
- Irish: maidir le
- Italian: quanto a, in quanto a
- Japanese: ...として (...toshite)
- Khmer: រីឯ (rii ʼae)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: hva angår
- Polish: jeśli chodzi o, co do (pl)
- Portuguese: quanto a (pt)
- Romanian: cât despre
- Russian: что каса́ется (što kasájetsja)
- Spanish: en cuanto a (es), respecto a, para (es), en lo tocante a
- Swedish: vad gäller
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