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Back when this trip was just a pipe dream, I was quizzing a work colleague about speaking 'Afrikaans'. She had started to drip feed me words and phrases -one per week- before I left to work elsewhere.
Here they are....
Word:"hoe vreemd"
Pronounced: "ho fremd" (with some spit around the 'fr' bit...)
Meaning: "How odd?" or "How strange?"
Word: dol
Pronounced: dole
Meaning: 'Manic' or 'busy'
Word: jol
Pronounced: jol
Meaning: 'Party' or 'to party'
Word: hardloop
Pronounced: herdlop
Meaning: 'Running' or 'to run'
Word: opgevonde
Pronounced: oopfond
Meaning: excited
Word: groot
Pronounced: groot
Meaning: 'great' or 'big'
Word: babbelas
Pronounced:
Meaning: Hangover
Word: My
Pronounced: may
Meaning: my
Word: Jou
Pronounced: shou
Meaning: Your
Word: maar
Pronounced: mare
Meaning: "but"
Word: en
Pronounced: en
Meaning: "And"
Word: Ek
Pronounced: eh
Meaning: "I"
Word: liefie
Pronounced: lefy
Meaning: "Lovely"
Word: of
Pronounced: ef
Meaning: "If"
That's a start anyway..... feel free to add/correct any word/pronunciation/translation that looks wrong. It was a while back when this list was created.....
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Excellent and as you say entirely useless i've tried to make a sentence from the words and it justs sounds as though i've had to much beer
Would be good to get clarity on - 'we won the series' or in the event of a disaster - 'oh well it's only a game'
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Here you go....
We won the series... Ons het die series gewen
Oh well it's only a game....Ag wel dit is net 'n game..
The pronounciation is where the fun starts........
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