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发誓

fā shì

Old HSK 6 HSK 3.0 level 7-9 2-character word Traditional 發誓

发誓 (fā shì) means "to vow; to pledge; to swear". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 发誓 means

1. to vow
2. to pledge
3. to swear

The characters in 发誓

• 发fāto send out; to show (one's feeling); to issue
• 誓shìoath; vow; to swear

Example sentences

• 他发誓要戒烟。
  He vowed to give up smoking.
• 我发誓我什幺也没做。
  I swear I didn't do anything.
• 两个恋人发誓永远相爱。
  Liǎng gè liànrén fāshì yǒngyuǎn xiāng'ài.
  The two lovers swore to love each other for eternity.
• 我发誓我不会做这种事。
  I swear I will never do such a thing.
• 我发誓我看到了外星人。
  I swear, I saw an alien!
• 我发誓再也不和她说话了。
  Wǒ fāshì zàiyě bù hé tā shuōhuà le.
  I vowed that I would never speak to her again.

Words containing 发誓

• 赌咒发誓dǔ zhòu fā shìto vow

Where 发誓 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 6 Vocabulary · ēn–fā (HSK 6), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

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