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Afrikaans Nouns

Welcome to the third Afrikaans lesson about nouns. This time we will first learn about fruits and vegetables, followed by grammar rules, then food items, finally a conversation in Afrikaans to help you practice your daily phrases.

potatoes
potatoes Audio aartappels
tomatoes
tomatoes Audio tamaties
onions
onions Audio uie
carrots
carrots Audio wortels
fruits
fruits Audio vrugte
apples
apples Audio appels
bananas
bananas Audio piesangs
oranges
oranges Audio lemoene

Nouns Grammar Rules

In general nouns refer to a person, an object, or abstract ideas. For example: a fast runner the noun is [runner] because it refers to a person. The examples below use nouns in different ways and places to demonstrate how they behave in a sentence.

Grammar + Rules - Afrikaans
do you have milk?
[verb + noun] Het jy melk? Audio
I have milk and coffee
[preposition + noun] Ek het melk en koffie Audio
he has three apples
[number + plural noun] Hy het drie appels Audio
she only has one apple
[number + singular noun] Sy het net een appel Audio
we live in a small house
[adjective + noun] Ons woon in 'n klein huis Audio
I like our breakfast
[pronoun + noun] Ek hou van ontbyt Audio

The following are nouns of food items that you might be interested in learning and memorizing.

bread
bread Audio brood
milk
milk Audio melk
butter
butter Audio botter
cheese
cheese Audio kaas
coffee
coffee Audio koffie
sandwich
sandwich Audio toebroodjie
meat
meat Audio vleis
chicken
chicken Audio hoender
fish
fish Audio vis
breakfast
breakfast Audio Ontbyt
lunch
lunch Audio Middagete
dinner
dinner Audio Aandete

Conversation in Afrikaans

Now we finally reach the fun part, the practice of the daily conversations. These phrases are used to get to know new people, and break the ice.

English - Afrikaans
Do you speak (English/ Afrikaans)? Praat jy (Engels/Afrikaans)? Audio
Just a little Net 'n bietjie Audio
I like Afrikaans Ek hou van Afrikaans Audio
Can I practice with you? Kan ons saam oefen? Audio
How old are you? Hoe oud is jy? Audio
I'm thirty three years old Ek is 33 jaar oud Audio
It was nice talking to you Dit was lekker om met jou te gesels Audio

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