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.
- 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

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

Synonyms

as to, apropos; See also Thesaurus:about

Translations

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

Anagrams

Afros, afros, so far, sofar

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