Definition of Afrikaans in English:

Afrikaans

noun ˌafrɪˈkɑːnsˌæfrəˈkɑnz

mass noun

A language of southern Africa, derived from the form of Dutch brought to the Cape by Protestant settlers in the 17th century. It is an official language of South Africa, spoken by around 6 million people as their first language.
Example sentencesExamples
- Namibia's most common language is Afrikaans, imported from white South Africa.
- It blames the dominance of English and Afrikaans in official communication on the lack of a clearly defined language policy.
- He came to southern Africa from Holland when he was eleven years old, and he speaks English, Afrikaans, and some Xhosa.
- As something distinct from the Dutch of Holland, with all the classic features so typical of Afrikaans today, Cape Dutch is believed to have come into being by the middle of the 18th century.
- While her mother tongue is Afrikaans, she speaks some Spanish and some Sesotho, learned while in Maseru.
- I was raised in what used to be the first language of South Africa, Afrikaans.
- A colleague observed that the film should have been made in Afrikaans with subtitles, as the actors came alive when they spoke Afrikaans.
- Listen to anybody in Lesotho speak Sesotho and you'll soon realise that everybody is speaking a mixture of English and Sesotho and Afrikaans.
- As a further mark of its ethnic diversity, South Africa has 11 official languages, including Afrikaans, English, Ndebele, and Sotho.
- Brochures, written in Afrikaans, English, isiZulu, isiXhosa and Setswana, are available from all the city's clinics and hospitals.
- Other elements in such a range of choices are the pidgins and Creoles of English in West Africa and of Afrikaans in South Africa and Namibia.
- He learnt Dutch and Afrikaans so as to translate accurately from diaries and clippings.
- She spoke Afrikaans, but has said she learned English by ‘copying the radio’.
- The leaflets have been published in seven of the eleven official language, namely: Afrikaans, Tsonga, Sesotho, Zulu, English, Venda and Xhosa.
- As an African American woman, this was a unique experience because historically this university only catered to White South Africans who spoke Afrikaans.
- The second main official language is Afrikaans.
- There are also some 13,000 persons of Asian descent in South Africa who speak Afrikaans as their native language.
- Targeting students just out of nursing school, the hospitals believe South African staff will have an advantage in language skills, as Afrikaans is related to Dutch.
- Most computer software is only available in English and poorly supported in South Africa's second language, Afrikaans.
- Many black South Africans don't speak and understand Afrikaans.

adjective ˌafrɪˈkɑːnsˌæfrəˈkɑnz

Relating to the Afrikaner people, their way of life, or their language.
Example sentencesExamples
- For that to happen at an Afrikaans festival was unthinkable a few years ago.
- Published fiction, poetry, and autobiographical writings appear in both the English and Afrikaans languages.
- After all my efforts at proving my Afrikaans skills, the visa people have said it's not enough.
- They live in the Kalahari Desert, and their common name, Meerkats, comes from the Afrikaans language.
- There were Afrikaans universities, newspapers, magazines and publishing companies operating successfully in South Africa.
- Isn't there an Afrikaans word that means the same thing?
- The Afrikaans language shares many place-name elements with Dutch, the European language from which it derives.
- Everyone can contribute, but primarily it's the musings of the founding members who tell their stories to the Afrikaans massive.
- The aim was to celebrate Afrikaans culture, but also to show how this culture had now declared itself to be open, and free to assimilate other cultural influences.
- These two worlds would not clash until about 1770, by which time Afrikaans farmers, or Boers, had begun to trek eastwards to escape the monopolistic clutches of the East India Company.
- The Afrikaans press has reported that it is possible that three New National Party members could join the ANC.
- The Afrikaans daily published a far more balanced article that included most information that you published plus more.
- They had persuaded her to read to them out of her Afrikaans bible, which she now did often, choosing familiar passages so they could compare it with an English bible.
- This wonderful beast comes from South Africa and through its peculiar name, which comes from the Afrikaans language, it is the first animal in the dictionary.
- Some former Afrikaans universities increased their black students' intake through this type of partnership, thereby claiming to be meeting imperatives of transformation.
- Apart from its Afrikaans members, the church also has 130 English members.
- Something that really interested me was the very Western sound of the Afrikaans music performed.
- An anonymous Afrikaans poem, ‘Die Arme Boer’ (The Poor Boer), published in 1885, captured their helplessness.
- Her Afrikaans accent was barely noticeable in her low, even voice.
- He is a strong advocate of the rights of Afrikaans speakers.

Origin

The name in Afrikaans, from Dutch, literally 'African'.

Rhymes

advance, à outrance, chance, dance, enhance, entrance, faience, France, glance, lance, mischance, outdance, perchance, prance, Provence, stance, trance

Definition of Afrikaans in US English:

Afrikaans

nounˌafrəˈkänzˌæfrəˈkɑnz

A language of southern Africa, derived from the form of Dutch brought to the Cape by Protestant settlers in the 17th century, and an official language of South Africa.
Example sentencesExamples
- The leaflets have been published in seven of the eleven official language, namely: Afrikaans, Tsonga, Sesotho, Zulu, English, Venda and Xhosa.
- Brochures, written in Afrikaans, English, isiZulu, isiXhosa and Setswana, are available from all the city's clinics and hospitals.
- While her mother tongue is Afrikaans, she speaks some Spanish and some Sesotho, learned while in Maseru.
- He learnt Dutch and Afrikaans so as to translate accurately from diaries and clippings.
- A colleague observed that the film should have been made in Afrikaans with subtitles, as the actors came alive when they spoke Afrikaans.
- Other elements in such a range of choices are the pidgins and Creoles of English in West Africa and of Afrikaans in South Africa and Namibia.
- Listen to anybody in Lesotho speak Sesotho and you'll soon realise that everybody is speaking a mixture of English and Sesotho and Afrikaans.
- Many black South Africans don't speak and understand Afrikaans.
- As something distinct from the Dutch of Holland, with all the classic features so typical of Afrikaans today, Cape Dutch is believed to have come into being by the middle of the 18th century.
- I was raised in what used to be the first language of South Africa, Afrikaans.
- It blames the dominance of English and Afrikaans in official communication on the lack of a clearly defined language policy.
- As an African American woman, this was a unique experience because historically this university only catered to White South Africans who spoke Afrikaans.
- Most computer software is only available in English and poorly supported in South Africa's second language, Afrikaans.
- Targeting students just out of nursing school, the hospitals believe South African staff will have an advantage in language skills, as Afrikaans is related to Dutch.
- There are also some 13,000 persons of Asian descent in South Africa who speak Afrikaans as their native language.
- She spoke Afrikaans, but has said she learned English by ‘copying the radio’.
- He came to southern Africa from Holland when he was eleven years old, and he speaks English, Afrikaans, and some Xhosa.
- The second main official language is Afrikaans.
- Namibia's most common language is Afrikaans, imported from white South Africa.
- As a further mark of its ethnic diversity, South Africa has 11 official languages, including Afrikaans, English, Ndebele, and Sotho.

adjectiveˌafrəˈkänzˌæfrəˈkɑnz

Relating to the Afrikaner people, their way of life, or their language.
Example sentencesExamples
- The Afrikaans daily published a far more balanced article that included most information that you published plus more.
- Everyone can contribute, but primarily it's the musings of the founding members who tell their stories to the Afrikaans massive.
- They had persuaded her to read to them out of her Afrikaans bible, which she now did often, choosing familiar passages so they could compare it with an English bible.
- Something that really interested me was the very Western sound of the Afrikaans music performed.
- After all my efforts at proving my Afrikaans skills, the visa people have said it's not enough.
- Her Afrikaans accent was barely noticeable in her low, even voice.
- The aim was to celebrate Afrikaans culture, but also to show how this culture had now declared itself to be open, and free to assimilate other cultural influences.
- There were Afrikaans universities, newspapers, magazines and publishing companies operating successfully in South Africa.
- He is a strong advocate of the rights of Afrikaans speakers.
- An anonymous Afrikaans poem, ‘Die Arme Boer’ (The Poor Boer), published in 1885, captured their helplessness.
- They live in the Kalahari Desert, and their common name, Meerkats, comes from the Afrikaans language.
- The Afrikaans press has reported that it is possible that three New National Party members could join the ANC.
- Some former Afrikaans universities increased their black students' intake through this type of partnership, thereby claiming to be meeting imperatives of transformation.
- For that to happen at an Afrikaans festival was unthinkable a few years ago.
- These two worlds would not clash until about 1770, by which time Afrikaans farmers, or Boers, had begun to trek eastwards to escape the monopolistic clutches of the East India Company.
- Published fiction, poetry, and autobiographical writings appear in both the English and Afrikaans languages.
- This wonderful beast comes from South Africa and through its peculiar name, which comes from the Afrikaans language, it is the first animal in the dictionary.
- Apart from its Afrikaans members, the church also has 130 English members.
- The Afrikaans language shares many place-name elements with Dutch, the European language from which it derives.
- Isn't there an Afrikaans word that means the same thing?

Origin

The name in Afrikaans, from Dutch, literally ‘African’.

单词	Afrikaans
释义	Definition of Afrikaans in English: Afrikaans noun ˌafrɪˈkɑːnsˌæfrəˈkɑnz mass noun A language of southern Africa, derived from the form of Dutch brought to the Cape by Protestant settlers in the 17th century. It is an official language of South Africa, spoken by around 6 million people as their first language. Example sentencesExamples Namibia's most common language is Afrikaans, imported from white South Africa. It blames the dominance of English and Afrikaans in official communication on the lack of a clearly defined language policy. He came to southern Africa from Holland when he was eleven years old, and he speaks English, Afrikaans, and some Xhosa. As something distinct from the Dutch of Holland, with all the classic features so typical of Afrikaans today, Cape Dutch is believed to have come into being by the middle of the 18th century. While her mother tongue is Afrikaans, she speaks some Spanish and some Sesotho, learned while in Maseru. I was raised in what used to be the first language of South Africa, Afrikaans. A colleague observed that the film should have been made in Afrikaans with subtitles, as the actors came alive when they spoke Afrikaans. Listen to anybody in Lesotho speak Sesotho and you'll soon realise that everybody is speaking a mixture of English and Sesotho and Afrikaans. As a further mark of its ethnic diversity, South Africa has 11 official languages, including Afrikaans, English, Ndebele, and Sotho. Brochures, written in Afrikaans, English, isiZulu, isiXhosa and Setswana, are available from all the city's clinics and hospitals. Other elements in such a range of choices are the pidgins and Creoles of English in West Africa and of Afrikaans in South Africa and Namibia. He learnt Dutch and Afrikaans so as to translate accurately from diaries and clippings. She spoke Afrikaans, but has said she learned English by ‘copying the radio’. The leaflets have been published in seven of the eleven official language, namely: Afrikaans, Tsonga, Sesotho, Zulu, English, Venda and Xhosa. As an African American woman, this was a unique experience because historically this university only catered to White South Africans who spoke Afrikaans. The second main official language is Afrikaans. There are also some 13,000 persons of Asian descent in South Africa who speak Afrikaans as their native language. Targeting students just out of nursing school, the hospitals believe South African staff will have an advantage in language skills, as Afrikaans is related to Dutch. Most computer software is only available in English and poorly supported in South Africa's second language, Afrikaans. Many black South Africans don't speak and understand Afrikaans. adjective ˌafrɪˈkɑːnsˌæfrəˈkɑnz Relating to the Afrikaner people, their way of life, or their language. Example sentencesExamples For that to happen at an Afrikaans festival was unthinkable a few years ago. Published fiction, poetry, and autobiographical writings appear in both the English and Afrikaans languages. After all my efforts at proving my Afrikaans skills, the visa people have said it's not enough. They live in the Kalahari Desert, and their common name, Meerkats, comes from the Afrikaans language. There were Afrikaans universities, newspapers, magazines and publishing companies operating successfully in South Africa. Isn't there an Afrikaans word that means the same thing? The Afrikaans language shares many place-name elements with Dutch, the European language from which it derives. Everyone can contribute, but primarily it's the musings of the founding members who tell their stories to the Afrikaans massive. The aim was to celebrate Afrikaans culture, but also to show how this culture had now declared itself to be open, and free to assimilate other cultural influences. These two worlds would not clash until about 1770, by which time Afrikaans farmers, or Boers, had begun to trek eastwards to escape the monopolistic clutches of the East India Company. The Afrikaans press has reported that it is possible that three New National Party members could join the ANC. The Afrikaans daily published a far more balanced article that included most information that you published plus more. They had persuaded her to read to them out of her Afrikaans bible, which she now did often, choosing familiar passages so they could compare it with an English bible. This wonderful beast comes from South Africa and through its peculiar name, which comes from the Afrikaans language, it is the first animal in the dictionary. Some former Afrikaans universities increased their black students' intake through this type of partnership, thereby claiming to be meeting imperatives of transformation. Apart from its Afrikaans members, the church also has 130 English members. Something that really interested me was the very Western sound of the Afrikaans music performed. An anonymous Afrikaans poem, ‘Die Arme Boer’ (The Poor Boer), published in 1885, captured their helplessness. Her Afrikaans accent was barely noticeable in her low, even voice. He is a strong advocate of the rights of Afrikaans speakers. Origin The name in Afrikaans, from Dutch, literally 'African'. Rhymes advance, à outrance, chance, dance, enhance, entrance, faience, France, glance, lance, mischance, outdance, perchance, prance, Provence, stance, trance Definition of Afrikaans in US English: Afrikaans nounˌafrəˈkänzˌæfrəˈkɑnz A language of southern Africa, derived from the form of Dutch brought to the Cape by Protestant settlers in the 17th century, and an official language of South Africa. Example sentencesExamples The leaflets have been published in seven of the eleven official language, namely: Afrikaans, Tsonga, Sesotho, Zulu, English, Venda and Xhosa. Brochures, written in Afrikaans, English, isiZulu, isiXhosa and Setswana, are available from all the city's clinics and hospitals. While her mother tongue is Afrikaans, she speaks some Spanish and some Sesotho, learned while in Maseru. He learnt Dutch and Afrikaans so as to translate accurately from diaries and clippings. A colleague observed that the film should have been made in Afrikaans with subtitles, as the actors came alive when they spoke Afrikaans. Other elements in such a range of choices are the pidgins and Creoles of English in West Africa and of Afrikaans in South Africa and Namibia. Listen to anybody in Lesotho speak Sesotho and you'll soon realise that everybody is speaking a mixture of English and Sesotho and Afrikaans. Many black South Africans don't speak and understand Afrikaans. As something distinct from the Dutch of Holland, with all the classic features so typical of Afrikaans today, Cape Dutch is believed to have come into being by the middle of the 18th century. I was raised in what used to be the first language of South Africa, Afrikaans. It blames the dominance of English and Afrikaans in official communication on the lack of a clearly defined language policy. As an African American woman, this was a unique experience because historically this university only catered to White South Africans who spoke Afrikaans. Most computer software is only available in English and poorly supported in South Africa's second language, Afrikaans. Targeting students just out of nursing school, the hospitals believe South African staff will have an advantage in language skills, as Afrikaans is related to Dutch. There are also some 13,000 persons of Asian descent in South Africa who speak Afrikaans as their native language. She spoke Afrikaans, but has said she learned English by ‘copying the radio’. He came to southern Africa from Holland when he was eleven years old, and he speaks English, Afrikaans, and some Xhosa. The second main official language is Afrikaans. Namibia's most common language is Afrikaans, imported from white South Africa. As a further mark of its ethnic diversity, South Africa has 11 official languages, including Afrikaans, English, Ndebele, and Sotho. adjectiveˌafrəˈkänzˌæfrəˈkɑnz Relating to the Afrikaner people, their way of life, or their language. Example sentencesExamples The Afrikaans daily published a far more balanced article that included most information that you published plus more. Everyone can contribute, but primarily it's the musings of the founding members who tell their stories to the Afrikaans massive. They had persuaded her to read to them out of her Afrikaans bible, which she now did often, choosing familiar passages so they could compare it with an English bible. Something that really interested me was the very Western sound of the Afrikaans music performed. After all my efforts at proving my Afrikaans skills, the visa people have said it's not enough. Her Afrikaans accent was barely noticeable in her low, even voice. The aim was to celebrate Afrikaans culture, but also to show how this culture had now declared itself to be open, and free to assimilate other cultural influences. There were Afrikaans universities, newspapers, magazines and publishing companies operating successfully in South Africa. He is a strong advocate of the rights of Afrikaans speakers. An anonymous Afrikaans poem, ‘Die Arme Boer’ (The Poor Boer), published in 1885, captured their helplessness. They live in the Kalahari Desert, and their common name, Meerkats, comes from the Afrikaans language. The Afrikaans press has reported that it is possible that three New National Party members could join the ANC. Some former Afrikaans universities increased their black students' intake through this type of partnership, thereby claiming to be meeting imperatives of transformation. For that to happen at an Afrikaans festival was unthinkable a few years ago. These two worlds would not clash until about 1770, by which time Afrikaans farmers, or Boers, had begun to trek eastwards to escape the monopolistic clutches of the East India Company. Published fiction, poetry, and autobiographical writings appear in both the English and Afrikaans languages. This wonderful beast comes from South Africa and through its peculiar name, which comes from the Afrikaans language, it is the first animal in the dictionary. Apart from its Afrikaans members, the church also has 130 English members. The Afrikaans language shares many place-name elements with Dutch, the European language from which it derives. Isn't there an Afrikaans word that means the same thing? Origin The name in Afrikaans, from Dutch, literally ‘African’.
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