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The perfect is constructed with the auxiliary verb het + past participle, which—except for the verb hê (past participle gehad), separable verbs such as reghelp (past participle reggehelp) and verbs with beginnings such as ver-and ont-(verkoop, ontmoet are both infinitive and past participle)—is formed regularly by adding the prefix ge-to ...
All afrikaans infinitive do not look exactly like the present form, instead there is an infinitive construction: The correct form of the present (and future) infinitive for the afrikaans verb "speel" (to play) is "om te speel". A past infinitive can also be formed, for speel this infitive is om te gespeel het.
At the end of words, Dutch cluster ct was reduced to k in Afrikaans, hence Dutch contact and perfect with Afrikaans kontak and perfek. Similarly, ctie in Dutch (pronounced [ktsi]) is replaced by ksie (pronounced [ksi]); compare reactie ("reaction") and connectie ("connection") in Dutch with reaksie and konneksie in Afrikaans.
The name of the language comes directly from the Dutch word Afrikaansch (now spelled Afrikaans) [n 3] meaning 'African'. [12] It was previously referred to as 'Cape Dutch' (Kaap-Hollands or Kaap-Nederlands), a term also used to refer to the early Cape settlers collectively, or the derogatory 'kitchen Dutch' (kombuistaal) from its use by slaves of colonial settlers "in the kitchen".
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The Taalkommissie ("Language Commission") is a subsidiary of the Suid-Afrikaanse Akademie vir Wetenskap en Kuns ("South African Academy for Science and Arts") that serves as the technical committee of the Nasionale Taalliggaam vir Afrikaans ("National Language Body for Afrikaans"), which is the language regulator of the Afrikaans language.
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