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Considered outdated as "bliksem" and "skelm" are more commonly used. boer – literally "farmer" in Afrikaans. (pronounced boo-(r)). Also the verb "to farm". boer maak 'n plan – "farmer makes a plan" is an expression used to refer to a creative solution, often low-cost and rather innovative.
The letter is the indefinite article of Afrikaans, and is pronounced as a schwa. The symbol itself came about as a contraction of its Dutch equivalent een meaning "one" (just as English an comes from Anglo-Saxon ān, also meaning "one"). Dit is ’n boom. [dət əs ə buəm] It is a tree. In Afrikaans, ’n is never capitalised in standard texts.
Please keep this category purged of everything that is not actually an article about a word or phrase. See as example Category:English words . Look up Category:English terms derived from Afrikaans in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
doos - idiot (more likely an "asshole" or "cunt"; can also mean "female genitalia") (profanity)(rude). For example: "Rory Da Costa is the biggest doos to walk the planet!" From the Afrikaans word for box as used in common everyday language. Though people trying to speaking Afrikaans in a pure form still use the word doos when referring to a ...
Besides additions, definitions were altered and archaic words and meanings deleted, especially words and meanings that were more Dutch than Afrikaans. (Here the contribution of Mrs Estelle Odendal should be mentioned, who recorded new and missing words from newspapers, magazines and books the whole time her husband was working on the HAT .)
Pages in category "Afrikaans" The following 23 pages are in this category, out of 23 total. ... Hard and soft G in Dutch; Genootskap van Regte Afrikaners;
Words of Afrikaans origin have entered other languages. British English has absorbed Afrikaans words primarily via British soldiers who served in the Boer Wars. Many more words have entered common usage in South African English due to the parallel nature of the English and Afrikaner cultures in South Africa. Afrikaans words have unusual ...
Although Afrikaans has adopted words from other languages including German, Malay and Khoisan languages, an estimated 90 to 95% of the vocabulary of Afrikaans is of Dutch origin. [n 1] Differences between Afrikaans and Dutch often lie in the more analytic morphology and grammar of Afrikaans, and different spellings. [n 2] There is a large ...