Examples of using "Väittää" in a sentence and their english translations:
Tom claims to be an engineer.
Tom claims he has psychic powers.
I have no intention of objecting to your method.
Tom claims he shot Mary in self-defense.
- Tom says that he is able to communicate with the dead.
- Tom says he's able to communicate with the dead.
Tom claims that he can speak French.
Tom claims that he was in Boston the night Mary was murdered.
This skin care product claims that it can remove wrinkles.
Tom claims he knows the value of pi to a thousand places.
Mary claims to be a singer, though she doesn't sing well at all.
Tom certainly isn't as bad as Mary claims he is.
She claims that she knows nothing about him, but I don't believe her.
Mary claims that Google Translate translates better than I do. That is a brazen lie.
He's making a mountain out of a molehill. That typo really isn't as bad as he claims.
No religion can nor has the right to pretend to be the only true religion.
That wuss is at home after breaking up with some chick I've never heard of and claims to be trying to think of a way to make things up to this other girl he truly loves and frankly I question if either of these women actually exist.