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Afrikaans: Hy het 'n huis gekoop. Dutch: Hij heeft een huis gekocht. English: He (has) bought a house. Relative clauses usually begin with the pronoun "wat", used both for personal and non-personal antecedents. For example, Afrikaans: Die man wat hier gebly het was ʼn Amerikaner. Dutch: De man die hier bleef was een Amerikaan.
flou – an unfunny (weak) joke (from the Afrikaans word for weak), can also refer to weak coffee or tea or weak alcoholic drink. A person that is weak. fok – Afrikaans for "fuck", can be used in most ways it is used in English. Fokken = fucking, gefok = fucked.
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".
But werd, I don't think is an Afrikaans word at all. (Example of wis and dog being used in a Kuifie comic here) 80.114.156.101 20:28, 21 February 2023 (UTC) I am native Afrikaans and I would not understand if you were to use werd as a verb (werd meaning worth I understand).
In Afrikaans, velar may be used in a few "hyper-posh" varieties [which?], and it may also, rarely, occur as an allophone before front vowels in speakers with otherwise uvular . /ɡ/ occurs mostly in loanwords, but also occurs as an allophone of /χ/ at the end of an inflected root where G is preceded by a short vowel and /r/ and succeeded by a ...
The OBE system, when in its experimental stages, originally used a scale from 1 - 4 (a pass being a 3 and a '1st class pass' being above 70%), but this system was considered far too coarse and replaced by a scale from 1 to 7.