Yiddish

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From ־שט (-sht) suffixed onto Hebrew כְּלוֹמַר (k'lomár, that is to say), from כְּ־ (k'-, as) + לוֹמַר (lomár), infinitive of אָמַר ('amár, to say).

Adverb

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כּלומרשט (kloymersht)

  1. as if, as though, as it were

Derived terms

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