Do you know your Afrikaans and English?

Question

Afrikaans words are used in English as well. I can think of Apartheid http://education.yahoo.com/reference/dictionary/entry/apartheid;_ylt=Akr5gMFUlv.w__mzI2Ty.zasgMMF and aardvark http://education.yahoo.com/reference/dictionary/entry/aardvark for example. And some English words, used as slang at first, have been adopted by Afrikaans as well, like "boks" (box) and "verkeerslig" (traffic light). Words that used to be an "anglisisme" are now considered Afrikaans words. Do you know of any others? This is a very difficult question, but I have faith in you guys! Remember that this question actually requires two answers. Afrikaans to English dictionary and English to Afrikaans dictionary. Now we'll see who the smart ones are!

Thanks Anria A for a very good answer. This is what we've come to expect from you. But you only answered half of the question! But what are the previous answerers talking about? DUH (In capital letters)?

And what about "podcast"? What is it in Afrikaans? Is there even an Afrikaans word for it, or does it stay the same?

Hey, Bedram! What de f*ck are you talking about? You crazy mofo. Go look for an identity and then come back to argue. Where in the name of all that's holy are you from? You wish you were South African, don't cha?

Answer 1

Hmm...you're right it is difficult; but here is my 2c worth..:o)
English - Afrikaans
Click - klik
Memory stick(as in USB memory stick..yeah I nealry died when I heard this one!) - geheuestokkie
A very famous one and I think considered slang - ok(both English and Afrikaans)
Afirkaans - English
Pap
Braai
These two words have been integrated into the English language in usage, not sure about dictionary though.
Another fanous one robot(another word for traffic light but totaly Afrikaansed..gosh hope there is such a word as Afrikaansed..:o))
What about Meerkat? It is used both in English and Afrikaans..
But I must confess I am out of ideas and don't have a dictionary even though I am having fun with this question...
Thanx for another great Q!

Answer 2

Well in general alot of the Afrikaans words that people use as in Anria's examples are in fact not proper Afrikaans as Afrikaans words with the same meanings do exist. To be certain that a word has indeed been accepted as Afrikaans check the H.A.T dictionary that is rereleased every now and then.
As a point of interest can anyone translate the following true Afrikaans words (off the top of your head of course):
Klosetpapier
Dwyl

We do use other terms for these that have been accepted as true Afrikaans.
#EDIT FOR IDIOTS NAMED BEDRAM#
If in fact you really are South African surely you know that AFRIKAANS is one of our 11 official languages and that African is not a language but a noun or an adjective if you must. Zulu, Xhosa, Sepedi, English, Sesotho, and Afrikaans are some of the 11 official languages.

Answer 3

I grew up very confused, Eng. and Afr. were both spoken in my parent´s house. When I went to school (skool) I did not know what a flinder/skoenlapper was it should be a "bottervlieg?" (butterfly). n lorry was always a lorrie and where did they find a word like bakkie for the small pickup? Have u ever asked an english man to go to a fliek with u? He would not know what u are speaking about.

I know it is not what u really want but i think we are all confused with all these languages and my poor kids mix 3 together.

And don´t fore get, Boerewors, biltong and Apartheid are not only English
they are international words!

Answer 4

The Afrikaans for knife and spoon; Mes and lepel comes from the German Messe und lephel, but the Afrikaans for fork is vurk, similar to English.
There is also inisiatief (initiative) instutisie (institution) kritiek (critic) atmosfeer (atmosphere)
I constantly say karbohidrate for carbohydrates, and I know many who do as well. (It's actually koolhidrate)
I've heard folks use invitasie (invitation) ekspreseer (express) appresiasie (appreciation), but I don't know if these are in the dictionary yet.
See a website called Pauli, Anglikaans, and you'll find plenty more.

Answer 5

Water - pronounced differently in Afrikaans and English but still spelt the same.

Answer 6

How about
for better or worse,they made 'vir botter of wors'
G-string they made 'terg toutjie'
they used english to translate it to afrikaans but it still mean the same thing.There is alot more wich i can't remember right now.
But know afrikaans came after english!

Answer 7

I was shocked by "gesigboek" for facebook (cringe worthy surely)

Answer 8

well isn't Afrikaans known as kitchen dutch...it's basically a language formed from other languages

Answer 9

Afrikanse is from S. Africa and it is a mixture of African dialogues, English and mostlt Dutch

Answer 10

First of all learn how to spell Africa. It's Africans not Afrikaans.
smart - english
smarte-african
book-english
boke-african

i know some others but i don't feel like listing them