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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.
As for you, we believe in you.
- 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.

As for is almost always put at the beginning of a sentence.
as to, apropos; See also Thesaurus:about
Arabic: أَمَّا ... فَـ (ar) (ʔammā ... fa-)
Azerbaijani: o ki, qaldı
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
Danish: hvad angår, vedrørende (da)
Dutch: wat betreft, wat ... betreft
Finnish: mitä tulee
French: quant à (fr), pour (fr), concernant (fr)
German: was ... angeht, was ... betrifft
Hebrew: בְּנוֹגֵעַ לְ־ (b'nogéa' l'-)
Hindi: ... तो (hi) (... to)
Hungarian: ami …-t illeti
Indonesian: adapun (id)
Irish: maidir le, i dtaca le
Italian: quanto a, in quanto a
Japanese: ...として (ja) (...toshite)
Khmer: រីឯ (rii ʼae)
Norwegian:
Bokmål: hva angår, når det gjelder, hva gjelder
Polish: jeśli chodzi o, co do (pl)
Portuguese: quanto a (pt)
Romanian: cât despre
Russian: что каса́ется (što kasájetsja)
Spanish: en cuanto a (es), cuanto a, en lo tocante a, en / con lo que respecta a, por lo que respecta a (es), en materia de
Sundanese: ari (su)
Swedish: vad gäller
Afros, afros, so far, sofar