Example sentences for: dosae

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

  • On the whole, I recommend DOSAE highly for anyone wishing to get to grips with English in South Africa.

  • (To be consistent, the DOSAE would have to indicate the word for left in all languages that appear in road signs in different parts of the country--Zulu, Xhosa, Sotho and Tswana).

  • Many of the Afrikaans words in DOSAE are similarly illustrated from examples involving bilingual word play by creative writers.

  • Slegs is one of the relatively few items marked in the DOSAE as Afrikaans, rather than English.

  • 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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