Verb
Plain form (yanzu) |
3rd-person singular (ana cikin yi) |
Past tense (ya wuce) |
Past participle (ya wuce) |
Present participle (ana cikin yi) |
- to take an oath <> rantse, yi rantsuwa.
- he found it necessary to swear to the truthfulness of what he wrote. <> ya rantse cewa abin da ya rubuta gaskiya ne.
- I swear by God <> Na rantse da Allah.
- to curse someone mildly <> zaga, yi wa zagi, yi tir da.
- Zagi, ashar, da kuma wasu maganganun batsa furci ne da ake amfani da su kowace rana a duniya ta yau. <> Cursing, profanity, and other forms of obscene language are part of everyday speech in today’s world.
- (strongly) la'anta
- use swear words profusely, obscene or vulgar language. <> yi ashar, ya ashariya. mugun baki ko ɗanyen baki.
- Synonym: profanity
- Sa’ad da na yi aure, ni da maigidana mun ƙaura zuwa yankin da ake yawan yin ashar da maye da kuma shan taba. <> When I married, my husband and I moved to an area where cursing, drunkenness, and smoking were the norm.
- Zagi, ashar, da kuma wasu maganganun batsa furci ne da ake amfani da su kowace rana a duniya ta yau. <> Cursing, profanity, and other forms of obscene language are part of everyday speech in today’s world.
See Here, from the UK broadcast regulator Ofcom, a research into swearwords via podnews