English → Tetun
swear
(vow) jura; (cuss) tolok
Example sentences
I swear, I’m not lying to you!
Ha'u jura ne'e, la bosok ita ida sá!
I think police shouldn't swear at him.
Hau hanoin katak polísia la bele tolok nia.
If you swear at your mother, you will be under a curse.
Se ó ko'alia liafuan aat ba ó nia amá, sei kona malisan.
Examples from the 46,000-sentence English–Tetun parallel corpus.