Words similar to afrikaans
Example sentences for: afrikaans
How can you use “afrikaans” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:
Many of the Afrikaans words in DOSAE are similarly illustrated from examples involving bilingual word play by creative writers.
That was where I learned to speak Afrikaans She is heel-temal tweetalig [totally bilingual] and ... studied art in Scotland.
Incidentally, dunk is not proper German, Dutch, or even Afrikaans for `dip,' and to the best of my knowledge would not even be understood as slang in German or Afrikaans.
Aardvark was borrowed from Afrikaans aard `earth' plus vark `pig,' the similarity being the snouts.
The majority of Afrikaans items, however, are those which appear in written English sources, but rarely in colloquial South African English (even as spoken by Afrikaners).