Difference between revisions of "swear"
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* English: ''vow, promise, cursed, swear'' | * English: ''vow, promise, cursed, swear'' | ||
Revision as of 14:01, 12 March 2021
Naija
Etymology
From English: swear
Pronunciation
- swɛr
Frequency
- Frequency in NSC treebank: 1
- Frequency rank in NSC treebank: 2680
- Frequency in raw corpus: 154
- Frequency rank in raw corpus: 1557
Noun
When person dey claim sey wetin im dey talk na di truth.
- E talk sey: ‘Dem no dey gree swear. — (jw__26978, __no translation__)
- birth certificate or declaration wey di people wey dey apply swear for deir age. — (hildrights__79, __no translation__)
Synonyms
Antonyms
Translations
- English: no definition
Verb
- Make person talk sey wetin im dey talk na di true.
- Swear sey you no like me. — (LAG_22_I-Senior-You_DG__191, Swear that you don't like me.)
- Some of di victims say dem first cari dem go babalawo shrine to swear say dem no go tell police or anybodi wetin dey happen. — (bbc__91257, Some of the victims claimed that they were taken to a witch doctors shrine to take an oath, never to disclose what happened to anybody or the police.)
- Make person promise anoder person.
- Because for Bible, promise be like swear. — (jw__4705, The promises found in the bible is guaranteed.)
- I swear to God! — (ENU_13_School-Life_DG__61, I vow to God!)
- Make dey curse person.
- Dem don swear for dat boy. — (NSC_Olukayode.S.M_2021, The boy is accursed.)
- If you no pay my money, I go swear for you. — (NSC_Olukayode.S.M_2021, If you do not pay my money, I will place a curse on you.)
Synonyms
Antonyms
Translations
- English: vow, promise, cursed, swear