If you're trying to learn Afrikaans Feminine you will find some useful resources including a course about genders: Feminine and Masculine... to help you with your Afrikaans grammar. Try to concentrate on the lesson and notice the pattern that occurs each time the word changes its place. Also don't forget to check the rest of our other lessons listed on Learn Afrikaans. Enjoy the rest of the lesson!
Learning the Afrikaans Feminine displayed below is vital to the language. Afrikaans feminine refers to female qualities attributed specifically to women and girls or things considered feminine. The complement to feminine is masculine.
Many languages will give words grammatical gender, but this is not the case for Afrikaans, just like English, there is no gender and thus nouns have no classification.
|
Afrikaans |
English |
|
sy/haar |
her |
|
hy |
his |
|
hulle |
they |
|
dit |
it |
Seun (son) becomes dogter (daughter), moeder (mother) becomes vader (father).
There are neutral gender words, e.g. polisiebeampte (policemen), kaptein (captain).
Here are some examples:
| English Feminine | Afrikaans Feminine |
|---|---|
| Feminine | Vroulike |
| he is happy | hy is gelukkig |
| she is happy | sy is gelukkig |
| he is American | hy is amerikaans |
| she is American | sy is amerikaans |
| man | man |
| woman | vrou |
| father | vader |
| mother | moeder |
| brother | broer |
| sister | suster |
| uncle | oom |
| aunt | tante |
| bull | bul |
| cow | koei |
| boy | seun |
| girl | meisie |
Notice the structure of the Feminine in Afrikaans.
Below is a list of objects, can you determine whether they're feminine, masculine or plural in Afrikaans? Memorizing this table will also help you add very useful and important words to your Afrikaans vocabulary.
| English Vocabulary | Afrikaans Vocabulary |
|---|---|
| objects | voorwerpe |
| bathroom | badkamer |
| bed | bed |
| bedroom | slaapkamer |
| ceiling | plafon |
| chair | stoel |
| clothes | klere |
| coat | jas |
| cup | beker |
| desk | Balie |
| dress | rok |
| floor | vloer |
| fork | vurk |
| furniture | meubels |
| glass | glas |
| hat | hoed |
| house | huis |
| ink | ink |
| jacket | baadjie |
| kitchen | kombuis |
| knife | mes |
| lamp | lamp |
| letter | brief |
| map | kaart |
| newspaper | koerant |
| notebook | nota boek |
| pants | broek |
| paper | papier |
| pen | pen |
| pencil | potlood |
| pharmacy | apteek |
| picture | prent, foto |
| plate | bord |
| refrigerator | yskas |
| restaurant | restaurant |
| roof | dak |
| room | kamer |
| rug | mat |
| scissors | skêr |
| shampoo | sjampoe |
| shirt | hemp |
| shoes | skoene |
| soap | seep |
| socks | sokkies |
| spoon | lepel |
| table | tafel |
| toilet | toilet |
| toothbrush | tandeborsel |
| toothpaste | tandepasta |
| towel | handdoek |
| umbrella | sambreel |
| underwear | onderklere |
| wall | muur |
| wallet | beursie |
| window | venster |
| telephone | telefoon |
Feminine and Masculine have a very important role in Afrikaans. Once you're done with Afrikaans Feminine, you might want to check the rest of our Afrikaans lessons here: Learn Afrikaans. Don't forget to bookmark this page.
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