Word someone looks like you

Contents

• 1 What is it called when someone looks like someone else?
• 2 What’s a word for look-alike?
• 3 What is another word for doppelganger?
• 4 What does doppelgänger mean in English?
• 5 How do you call similar people?
• 6 What’s the word for evil twin?
• 7 Is a doppelganger evil?
• 8 Does doppelganger really exist?
• 9 Is it true that we have a twin in the world?
• 10 What is a better word for evil?
• 11 Is doppelganger a German word?
• 12 Do doppelgängers have the same DNA?
• 13 What do doppelgängers do?
• 14 What happens if I see my doppelganger?
• 15 What are the names of Elena’s doppelgängers?
• 16 How are doppelgängers made?
• 17 Why are doppelgängers scary?
• 18 How do I recognize my twin flame?
• 19 Can someone look exactly like you?
• 20 Do identical twins have the same fingerprints?

Hello,

Daughter: I saw

someone who looked like you

at the station on my way home.
Mother: Someone who looked like me?
D: Yes.
(a self-made conversation)

Q1
Can the following phrases be used in place of the phrase ‘someone who looked like you’?
1. someone who could pass for you
2. someone (just/exactly) like you
3. someone (just/exactly) looking like you
4. someone similar to you
5. your lookalike

Q2
Is there any noun phrase consisting of the construction ‘someone + adjective + preposition + you’ which serves as a substitute for ‘someone who looked like you’?

Thank you

Hi onsen.
That’s quite a few questions . . .

1.1 — «someone who could pass for you» seems grammatical, but it sounds ‘odd’.
1.2a — «someone just like you» is grammatical and quite natural. It doesn’t mean

exactly

the same. «Someone who looks like you» is

physically

similar. «Someone just like you» acts and speaks the same way too.
1.2b — «someone exactly like you» is grammatical and quite natural. It doesn’t mean the same. «Someone who looks like you» is physically similar. «Someone exactly like you» looks, acts and speaks the same way to such an extent that one would mistake the two people for each other.
1.3 — «someone (just/exactly) looking like you» does not work. «Just/exactly» modifies ‘like’, so should be connected to it.
«someone looking (just/exactly) like you» would work. It (again) doesn’t mean exactly the same.
«Who looks like you» refers to the normal physical features of the person. She is a «twin» or very similar-looking person. Her normal ‘look’ is the same as the mother’s.
«Looking like you» refers to the person’s actions/appearance at the time (the time she was at the station) — it may not be a normal resemblance. She may have been wearing make-up and a disguise in order to look similar to the mother.
1.4 — «someone similar to you» is OK — it would be used when the similarity was slight (not enough to say ‘looked like’).
1.5 — I suppose it’s grammatically OK. I don’t think I’ve ever heard anyone use the word ‘lookalike’ in real life.

2. It depends what you are expecting. There is no adjective which means «who looked like».
«I saw someone tall like you.»
«I saw someone blonde like you.»
«I saw someone similar to you.»
«I saw someone almost identical to you.»

There is the noun doppelgänger which has been borrowed from the German language.

«I saw your doppelgänger today.»

That’s true — I didn’t think of that.

You do hear «lookalike», but usually as part of a combination-noun.

I saw a Beyoncé-lookalike today.
Did you see the Paul McCartney-lookalike in the club last night?

There are, of course, many idiomatic phrases and slang forms one could use.

«I saw the spitting image of you at the station on my way home.»
«I saw a dead ringer for you at the station on my way home.»

Onsen, what you have written is perfectly correct. IMO

Some members may try to find fault and interpret in their own way.

TFD;

lookalike
ˈlʊkəlʌɪk/Submit
noun
a person or thing that closely resembles another, especially someone who looks very similar to a famous person.
«an Elvis Presley lookalike»
synonyms: double, twin, exact likeness, image, living image, mirror image, exact match, replica, clone, imitation, duplicate, copy, facsimile;

Huh?

In case the resemblance was close but not quite exact, you might say «I saw someone who looked a lot like you.«

(That would be more natural than «similar to you.»)

Also, «your double» (or «someone who could be your double») is probably more common than «your doppelgänger».

I don’t think anyone would bother telling someone this. It’s meaningless. We’re all «similar». The basic model is two legs/arms, a head, a torso, hands and feet.

So I’d imagine that only if we were speaking to someone from a far-distant nebula would would one remark on «similarity»? Or if they had some loathsome deformity. And in that context we’d not use it anyway.

NK, for me, almost everyone I know would use «doppelganger». If for no other reason than that anyone under around 30 (here at least) was brought up on a diet of the supernatural, both on tv and in movies; as well as through manga, graphic novels, and comics. In books too, but books now in the popular market; not just through the Classics.

People around me are pretty familiar with dopplegangers, and nosferatu, and concepts once only primarily available through The Canon.

It tickles me pink!

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Synonyms of Looks like somebody

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I’m trying to catch some food, but something got to it before me, it looks like.

Я просто пытался поймать себе еду, но похоже что то пришло за ней до меня.

He doesn’t look like he knows what’s going on.

Не похоже что он понимает что происходит.

It looks like it’s native, handmade.

Похоже что это ручная работа. 00:

Looks like, uh, baby mama’s still got it.

Похоже, что мамочка еще на коне. Все верно.

‘Cause it looks like a lot of work.

Похоже, что тут полно работы.

I get what it looks like.

Понимаю как это выглядит.

And then, now she looks like this, so Johnny should be probably fearing for his life right now because Sam and Neeko went after him.

И теперь, она выглядит, вот так, так что Джонни стоит сейчас бояться за свою жизнь. потому что Сэм и Нико пошли за ним.

That young master didn’t look like talking an empty word.

Этот Молодой Господин не выглядит пустозвоном.

«Look at him — cost me a thousand — looks like a million!»

«Посмотри-ка на него стоил мне всего тысячу, а выглядит на миллион!»

What’s he look like?

— Как он выглядит?

Maybe to adults it looks like we’re just running around, playing whatever we want to, wherever we want to, running all around the yard, willy-nilly without barriers or boundaries.

Взрослым наверно кажется, что мы просто наворачиваем круги, играем во всё подряд, бегаем где хотим по всему двору сломя голову без барьеров и границ.

You’ll look like you’re trying too hard.

Кажется, ты перебарщиваешь с подготовкой.

Well, it looks like another one for our little gang.

Кажется, в нашей команде пополнение.

Looks like I’m on my way to the cleaners too.

Кажется, я тоже к этому иду.

You don’t look like the kind of a man who comes down this way.

Мне кажется, ты из того типа мужчин, которые ничего не делают просто так.

It looks like a sugar-cane masterpiece… like a station selling tickets to unknown destinations only.

Оно имеет вид великолепного торта вокзала, откуда уезжают в неизвестном направлении.

I made it look like I did.

Я только сделал вид.

My dear Gania, why do you look like a beaten puppy?

Милый Ганя, к чему этот вид побитого пса?

Make her look like she was before we came.

Привести в первозданный вид.

Thanks to you, this shed finally looks like somebody lives here.

Благодаря вам эта конура наконец-то приняла обжитой вид.

Looks like the fog’s lifting.

Смотрите, туман рассеялся.

— Looks like they’re flattening out on top.

— Смотрите, они раcширяются к вершине.

A horrible thing! It looks like excrement!

О, какая мерзость, даже страшно смотреть.

The planet was actually called Women Wept cos if you looked at it from above, there’s this huge continent, like all curved round. It sort of looked like a woman, lamenting.

Планету на самом деле звали Женским Плачем, а всё потому, что если смотреть из космоса, можно увидеть огромный континент, круглый такой.

Paula, why do you look like that?

Пола, почему ты так смотришь?

— Hey, he looks like our artteacher.

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The house is beginning to look like a museum.

Наш дом теперь напоминает музей.

I am tired of this division… looking like a partnership between you and me.

Я устал от того, что эта работа напоминает наше с вами товарищество.

But look, it doesn’t look like a living animal.

Но посмотри. Она не напоминает живую.

Looks like a missile tracking us.

Напоминает ракету, отслеживающую нас.

You know, when I left you this afternoon, I couldn’t remember what you looked like. Not for the life of me.

3наете, когда я расстался с Вами днем я не мог вспомнить Ваше лицо.

What does she look like?

Какое у нее лицо?

You know… sometimes when I’m not with you, I close my eyes… and I can’t remember what you look like.

Знаешь.. иногда, когда тебя нет рядом, я закрываю глаза И не могу вспомнить твоё лицо.

«Darling, I love you so much, but… «sometimes when I close my eyes… «I can’t remember what you look like…

«Дорогая, я так тебя люблю, но… иногда, когда я закрываю глаза, я не могу вспомнить твоё лицо.

— Don’t you know your daughter? — You don’t know what she looks like.

Алфи, ты что, не знаешь ее в лицо?

They’ll swarm over your house so fast, every closet your family’s been in will look like a police convention.

Если я скажу это им, то они с такой скоростью заполонят ваш дом, что каждый забытый чулан будет походить на зал съезда полицейских.

You can be 52 years old and not look like a barrel.

В 52 года не обязательно походить на бочку.

To begin with, you must stop looking like a horse.

А для начала вам нужно перестать походить на грустную лошадь.

First his head with its feathery headdress, for Papageno is a bird catcher and must look like a bird in order to carry out his profession.

Сперва его голова, убранная перьями, ведь Папгено — птицелов и должен походить на птицу, чтобы соответствовать своему занятию

— He wanted to look like me…

Он хотел походить на меня.

Looks like you’re in the dough.

Сразу видно, ты при монетах.

Yes, it looks like that.

Оно и видно.

It looked like a trophy, it did.

Сразу видно. — С нами-то станет?

Doesn’t it look like that?

— Тебе хорошо? — Разве не видно?

Looks like the cook misunderstood.

Видно, повар не дослышал.

I don’t know. She looks like a pretty cute tamale to me.

Не знаю, а по-моему, это прелестная женщина.

It looks like they don’t ask questions here.

По-моему, здесь ни о чем не спрашивают.

This looks like a good place. — Ahh!

По-моему, отличное место.

He looks like the safest.

По-моему, этот безобидный.

Well, the scanners functioning. Looks like desert to me, hmm?

По-моему это пустыня, хмм?

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Перевод по словам

look  — взгляд, вид, взор, внешность, выглядеть, смотреть, посмотреть, поискать
like  — любить, подобный, подобно, так, как бы, как будто, очень

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Hello, guys! Today I’m going to tell you about one of the most interesting words in the English language: the word LIKE.

Do you know how we can use LIKE? What part of speech is it? What functions can it have?

Let’s begin with a quote that I really like:

“If  you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude.” (Maya Angelou)

Do you agree with Maya?

So, in this quote, what is the meaning of LIKE? Can you replace it with another word?
Yes, you can. We can say “if you don’t love,” or “If you don’t enjoy”, or “if you’re not fond of”, or “if you’re not keen on” etc. So in this sentence LIKE is a verb which shows preference.

I like swimming, I like dogs, I don’t like rap music.

Let’s look at this picture. “Would you like some tea?”

This woman is asking the man if he wants tea.

So when we talk about what we want or when we ask someone what they want, we can use “would like”.

Would you like to do an exercise on this topic? =)

I really like this song. It is “Help” by The Beatles. Take a break, listen to this great song!

What does “if you like” mean? We use “

if you like

” when we offer our help, or when we suggest something.

We can go to the movies, if you like. (if you like = if you want to do this).

Look at this girl! She’s as graceful as a swan. She dances like a goddess.

What does LIKE mean here? She dances like a goddess.
It means in a similar way, happening in the same way as something else.

What can we say if a man eats too much and too fast?
We can say that he eats like a horse, in the same way as a horse.

Here, like is used as a preposition.

From the Wikipedia article on Keira Knightley, famous English actress: “Knightley was cast in the role due to her close resemblance to Portman; even the two actresses’ mothers had difficulty telling their daughters apart when the girls were in full makeup.”

Can you tell which picture (left or right) shows Keira Knightley and which one shows Natalie Portman?

You’re right, Portman is on the left and Knightley is on the right.

They look like each other, don’t they? Knightley was hired because she looks like Portman.

“Look like someone” means that people have similar appearance. We can also say that two people look alike.  We can also use taste, feel, sound, smell with this meaning.
For example: «Your perfume smells like my boyfriend’s! It feels like I just saw him».

We can use “look like” and “feel like” with a more idiomatic meaning.

Compare:

In which sentence is “look like” used idiomatically? Yep, in the second one. In the first sentence we’re talking about outward appearance, about eyes, skin, hair color. In the second sentence we mean “it seems that” when we say “it looks like”.

Compare:

In the first sentence, I actually feel as if he’s here, I feel that he’s here, even if he’s not here.
In the second sentence, I want to sing a song, I feel like singing a song. In this case “feel like doing something” is idiomatic.

What do you feel like doing right now?

I love big cities like New York!  Just listen to this song from Frank Sinatra — New York, New York

Do you want to visit big cities like New York?
What does “like” mean in this sentence? Here, we use it to give an example. I can say “I love big cities, such as NY.” It will mean the same thing.

Do you often eat fruits like apples, bananas and berries?

Have you seen the new Les Misérables musical? What’s it like? I want to watch it, but I don’t know if I’ll like it.

So what did I want you to tell me when I said “What’s it like?”

I wanted to hear your opinion about it; I wanted you to tell me what you thought of it. So when we ask someone to describe something or give their opinion, we can ask “What is it like?”

By the way, Les Miserables is a REALLY great film, you should watch it!

There are also some more uses of like.
Like can be used as a noun: likes and dislikes. For example: «My friend and I have the same likes and dislikes».
Likes and dislikes are the things you like and don’t like.

What are your likes and dislikes?

We can use “like” as part of an adjective, as the suffix. For example: «This portrait is very lifelike. Who painted it? «

Some of these adjectives are:

Do you know childlike adults?

I also wanted to tell you about this English saying: Like father, like son. What do you think it means?
This photo can help you figure it out.