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lui finse

pretended, made up

→ fingere
fins to pretend + e 3rd person singular past
verb · third singular · past indicative Rare #38,524
pretended, made up Past historic (passato remoto) form; common in storytelling and formal writing.
IT: Finse di non sentirmi e continuò a camminare.
EN: He pretended not to hear me and kept walking.
Conjugation of fingere
Indicative past
SingularPlural
Third finse —

Tom finse la sua morte.

Tom faked his death.

Finse di essere malato.

He pretended to be sick.

E Goebbels trovò un attore che si finse Hitler.

And Goebbels found an actor who pretended to be Hitler.

— Il cielo sopra Berlino (1987)

Tom finse di essere canadese.

Tom pretended to be Canadian.