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 aartappels

tomatoes tamaties

onions uie

carrots wortels

fruits vrugte

apples appels

bananas piesangs

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

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

bread brood

milk melk

butter botter

cheese kaas

coffee koffie

sandwich toebroodjie

meat vleis

chicken hoender

fish vis

breakfast Ontbyt

lunch Middagete

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

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