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In South Africa, the phrases "now now", "just now", and "right now" all have differing connotations: "Now now" often means minutes later; "just now" means hours later; and "right now" actually means now. [citation needed] For example, the following line using South African slang: "I am going to see a movie just now. I will drive there now now.
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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 ...
(Informal) refers to a particular subculture of vagrants in Cape Town (from Afrikaans berg (mountain), originally referring to vagrants who sheltered in the forests of Table Mountain). Increasingly used in other cities to mean a vagrant of any description. [2] The term hobo is also used for homeless vagrants. bioscope, bio Cinema; movie theatre ...
The Handwoordeboek van die Afrikaanse Taal (HAT), is the best known explanatory dictionary for the Afrikaans language and is generally regarded as authoritative. Compared to the Woordeboek van die Afrikaanse Taal (WAT) it is a shorter Afrikaans explanatory dictionary in a single volume. The latest edition of the HAT, the sixth, was published in ...
Download QR code; Print/export ... Afrikaans-language films (93 P) E. English-language South African films (232 P) S. Sotho-language films (5 P) T.
Verraaiers (English: Traitors) is an Afrikaans language South African film that was released in 2013. It describes what happened during the Boer war. Paul Eilers is the director of movie. Gys de Villiers, Vilje Maritz and Andrew Thompson play the leading roles.