Translation
to swear, to vow
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Examples
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He swore to tell the truth.
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I swear that I did not see him.
on .
The soldiers swore loyalty to the king.
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She vowed never to come back.
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Do not swear about what you do not know.
The trap is that English swear does two unrelated jobs. is only the oath one: you swear to tell the truth, you swear loyalty, you swear you were nowhere near it. Swearing in the sense of bad language is a different root entirely, so never means he was rude.
Structurally it is flexible. It takes with a clause, an infinitive, or a plain object such as on, and the person you swear to takes . The noun is , an oath, and ĵurrompo is the breaking of one.
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Start your free weekThis word is taught in chapter 7, lesson 6: ĵuri, salono, kvieta and 7 more words.