Yakan - kuwat

kuwat

mag- (pl.)

To stand up, get up, rise (from sitting position).

When I am called to eat I immediately rise.

Kuwat ne kew.

Stand up.

Let us all get up (and go home); it is already late (lit. it will soon be afternoon).

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N-

To get up and scold s.o.

Pī kew kuwatun me' mākanak iyan, iyu' ga'i pahali magsasa'.

Go, get up and scold those children; they don’t stop quarreling.

Ensini' niya' mākanak magsasa', bu ku pī nguwatne; behude padeheng.

Earlier there were children quarreling and I got up and scolded them; only then did they stop.

Ga'i kew pahali nāring? Piyu ku nguwat ka'u?

You won’t stop crying? Shall I get up and scold you?