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as_for

as for

English

Preposition

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.‎
- 1945 May, George Orwell, chapter 3, in Animal Farm: A Fairy Story, London: Secker & Warburg, OCLC 3655473:
  
  As for the pigs, they could already read and write perfectly.

Usage notes

As for is almost always put at the beginning of a sentence.

Translations

regarding; about

Arabic: أَمَّا ... فَـ ‎(ʾammā ... fa-)
Catalan: quant a (ca), pel que fa a
Chinese:
Mandarin: 至於 (zh), 至于 (zh) ‎(zhìyú), 關於 (zh), 关于 (zh) ‎(guānyú)
Czech: pokud jde o
Finnish: mitä tulee
French: quant à (fr), pour (fr)

German: was ... angeht, was ... betrifft
Hindi: ... तो (hi) ‎(... to)
Irish: maidir le
Japanese: ...として ‎(...toshite)
Khmer: រីឯ ‎(éri)
Portuguese: quanto a
Russian: что каса́ется ‎(što kasájetsja)
Spanish: en cuanto a, respecto a, para (es)
Swedish: vad gäller

Anagrams

afros, so far, sofar