This is the 9047th most frequent Catalan word.
fingien
"Fingien" is the third-person plural imperfect form of "fingir," meaning "they were pretending" or "they pretended."
The word 'fingien' is the third person plural imperfect form of the verb 'fingir', meaning 'to pretend'.
Els nens fingien estar malalts per no anar a l'escola.
The children pretended to be sick to avoid going to school.
Here, 'fingien' denotes an action of pretending, describing what the actors were doing continuously during the presentation.
En l'obra de teatre, els actors fingien ser altres persones.
In the play, the actors pretended to be other people.
In this context, 'fingien' communicates the imaginative action of the children while playing.