Example sentences for: afrikaans

How can you use “afrikaans” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • 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.

  • The high proportion of Afrikaans words has frequently been singled out for comment by critics.

  • There is certainly a need for words of Afrikaans origin that recur in English texts (often for local color effect) to be glossed somewhere: a reference work like the DOSAE might be more convenient for readers than an Afrikaans or Xhosa or some other dictionary.

  • According to the Branfords' own calculations (made in 1988) the source languages for items in the DOSAE were 48 per cent Dutch/Afrikaans; 29 per cent English (i.e., neologisms); 11 per cent Bantu languages, and 12 per cent other.


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