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Certain words in Afrikaans arise due to grammar. For example, moet nie , which literally means "must not", usually becomes moenie ; although one does not have to write or say it like this, virtually all Afrikaans speakers will change the two words to moenie in the same way as do not shifts to don't in English.
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".
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.
First-round players to watch, keys to the game. For the first time ever, there will be College Football Playoff games on campuses. Notre Dame-Indiana will get things started on Friday night before ...
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.
Earning a perfect score on "Dancing With the Stars" is a big deal. Nev Schulman from MTV's "Catfish" got the first perfect score for season 29. JoJo Siwa and Chandler Kinney got the first perfect ...
Republican Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine has signed a transgender bathroom ban for students into law. The law requires students in the state's K-12 schools, as well as colleges and universities, to use ...
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.