Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
Word order in Afrikaans follows broadly the same rules as in Dutch: in main clauses, the finite verb appears in "second position" (V2 word order), while subordinate clauses (e.g. content clauses and relative clauses) have subject–object–verb order, with the verb at (or near) the end of the clause.
The original Afrikaans term for a "red-head" is a rooikop. Volksie – (pronounced as "folk-see") Is the local name of the Volkswagen Type 1 "Beetle" (based on the German/Afrikaans pronunciation – "folks-vach-en").
Vir een, ek is amper meer gewoond om Afrikaans te praat as wat ek gewoond is om Afrikaans te skryf. En, die gemeenskap van Afrikaanse wikipedia is nie baie groot nie, maar hulle doen baie uitstekende werk. Ja ek dink ek gaan hiermee afsluit om vir julle te sê: Afrikaans bestaan ook en hier het ons darem nou al 'n argiefvoorbeeld daarvan.
The name of the language comes directly from the Dutch word Afrikaansch (now spelled Afrikaans) [n 3] meaning 'African'. [12] It was previously referred to as 'Cape Dutch' (Kaap-Hollands or Kaap-Nederlands), a term also used to refer to the early Cape settlers collectively, or the derogatory 'kitchen Dutch' (kombuistaal) from its use by slaves of colonial settlers "in the kitchen".
The Handwoordeboek van die Afrikaanse Taal (HAT) is a shorter, concise Afrikaans explanatory dictionary in a single volume, compared to the comprehensive Woordeboek van die Afrikaanse Taal (WAT), similar to the Concise Oxford Dictionary and the Oxford English Dictionary. The project was begun in 1926 by Prof. J. J. Smith of Stellenbosch ...
Uit die diepte van ons see, Oor ons ewige gebergtes Waar die kranse antwoord gee. Deur ons vêr-verlate vlaktes Met die kreun van ossewa – Ruis die stem van ons geliefde, Van ons land Suid-Afrika. Ons sal antwoord op jou roepstem, Ons sal offer wat jy vra: Ons sal lewe, ons sal sterwe – Ons vir jou, Suid-Afrika.
Ons kan verandering lei en ons wêreld 'n beter plek maak as ons by onsself begin. Om te leer om 'n beter eggenoot, ouer, sakepersoon, leier, verkoopspersoon, filantroop, afrigter en vrywilliger te word, sal my in staat stel om meer by te dra tot my gesin, my gemeenskap en my bedryf.
This category is not for articles about concepts and things but only for articles about the words themselves.Please keep this category purged of everything that is not actually an article about a word or phrase.