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# How to pronounce "sweared" in English

## Pronunciation & Phonetics

- **IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet)**: `/swɪːrɛd/`
- **Syllable Breakdown**: **swea·red**
- **Parts of Speech**: verb
- **VERB**: simple past and past participle of swear (“take an oath”)
- **VERB**: simple past and past participle of swear (“British dialects: be lazy”)

## Real-Life Native Speaker Examples (4 Video Clips)

Listen to native speakers pronounce "sweared" in real conversation:

### Example 1
> "government mere powers to come up and I've been living all my life but through the pandemic I kind of sweared towards her because she was so sensible but after the dangerous thing yeah I changed my mind Nicholas sturgeon's exit comes just a month before the party is supposed to be hosting a special conference to discuss its future strategy on Independence and whether the"
- **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 0:44](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=toUTvLR7yOc&t=44s)

### Example 2
> "and people are gonna run with it. And what they wanted was the perception that they had actually sweared the election. They loved it. This was the huge mistake of the Democrats and everything."
- **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 81:51](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vNhSCF9i8Qs&t=4911s)

### Example 3
> "croatia game we actually saw him on the euros coach and he waved and sweared at me so i think"
- **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 0:52](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IOk6EUTk0NM&t=52s)

### Example 4
> "Quickly, of course, fisherman were lining up and down the Pier. There was a man who sweared he would fish on the Pier until the day he died. He did. And back in those days,"
- **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 6:52](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-OCM_E-Memc&t=412s)


## Related Words & Synonyms

- **Synonyms**: [pledge](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/pledge), [vow](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/vow), [depose](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/depose), [affirm](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/affirm), [testify](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/testify), [curse](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/curse), [expletive](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/expletive), [four-letter word](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/four-letter-word)
- **Nearby Vocabulary**: [swaged](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/swaged), [swaled](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/swaled), [swaped](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/swaped), [sward](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/sward), [swarded](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/swarded), [sware](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/sware), [swaree](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/swaree), [swarfed](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/swarfed)

## Frequently Asked Questions

### How do you pronounce "sweared" correctly?
"sweared" is pronounced `/swɪːrɛd/`. Syllable breakdown: **swea·red**.

### What does "sweared" mean in context?
simple past and past participle of swear (“take an oath”)

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