If you're trying to learn Afrikaans Nouns you will find some useful resources including a course about Nouns and Words... 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 Nouns displayed below is vital to the language. Afrikaans nouns are words used to name a person, animal, place, thing, or abstract ideas. Nouns are usually the most important part of vocabulary. Here are some examples:
| English Nouns | Afrikaans Nouns |
|---|---|
| nouns | Woorde |
| my car | my kar |
| green car | groen kar |
| three cars | drie karre |
| car garage | motor motorhuis |
| outside the car | buite die kar |
Notice the structure of the Nouns in Afrikaans has a logical pattern. Locate the Nouns above and see how it works with the rest of the sentence in Afrikaans.
Note: Because Afrikaans has lost its case system, nouns do not have grammatical gender and there is a distinction between the singular and plural forms of nouns. The most common plural marker is the suffix -e, but several common nouns form their plural instead by adding a final -s.
Word order in Afrikaans: There is a rule which indicates the order in which the parts of a sentence should appear. So if you want to construct a sentence follow the below order:
Subject | First verb | Time Object | Manner | Place | Second verb | Infinitive.
Example: Ek weet dat ons dit sal leer. (I know that we will learn it.)
Below is a list of the Nouns and Words in Afrikaans placed in a table. Memorizing this table will help you add very useful and important words to your Afrikaans vocabulary.
| English Nouns | Afrikaans Nouns |
|---|---|
| arm | arm |
| back | rug |
| cheeks | wange |
| chest | bors |
| chin | ken |
| ear | oor |
| elbow | elmboog |
| eye | oog |
| face | gesig |
| finger | vinger |
| fingers | vingers |
| foot | voet |
| hair | hare |
| hand | hand |
| head | kop |
| heart | hart |
| knee | knie |
| leg | been |
| lip | lip |
| mouth | mond |
| neck | nek |
| nose | neus |
| shoulder | skouer |
| stomach | maag |
| teeth | tande |
| thigh | bo been |
| throat | keel |
| thumb | duim |
| toe | toon |
| tongue | tong |
| tooth | tand |
Nouns and Words have a very important role in Afrikaans. Once you're done with Afrikaans Nouns, 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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