A collection of useful phrases in Afrikaans, a West Germanic language descended from Dutch and spoken mainly in South Africa and Namibia.
See these phrases in any combination of two languages in the Phrase Finder. If you can provide recordings, corrections or additional translations, please contact me.
Key to abbreviations: inf = informal, frm = formal, sg = singular (said to one person), pl = plural (said to more than one person)
Recordings by Therese Armstrong, Steph van Schalkwyk and Andre Combrinck
Download all the audio files (Zip format, 1.9MB)
Hear some Afrikaans phrases
If you would like to make any corrections or additions to this page, or if you can provide recordings, please contact me.
Information about Afrikaans | Phrases | Numbers | Family words | Time | Tower of Babel | Afrikaans courses on: Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk [affilate links]
Other collections of Afrikaans phrases
http://www.exploresouthafrica.net/phrasebook.htm
http://www.downloadalanguage.com/downloadalanguage/Afrikaans_phrases.html
http://www.easyafrikaans.com/easyafrikaans/Useful_Phrases.html
http://miejipang.homestead.com/untitled4.html
Learn Afrikaans online with AfrikaansPod101
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Afrikaans courses and other resources available on Amazon
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