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Afrikaans: Hy het 'n huis gekoop. Dutch: Hij heeft een huis gekocht. English: He (has) bought a house. Relative clauses usually begin with the pronoun "wat", used both for personal and non-personal antecedents. For example, Afrikaans: Die man wat hier gebly het was ʼn Amerikaner. Dutch: De man die hier bleef was een Amerikaan.
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".
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.
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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About the preterite form, the page says: "The preterite has been completely replaced by the perfect. Once again, the verb wees is the only exception to this rule, which admits the preterite form was." Immediately after that, there's a list of preterite forms (sou/kon/wis etc.) That's confusing. Perhaps someones who speaks Afrikaans can improve ...
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