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Lesson 4 of 10

Counting to ten in Afrikaans

One to ten, for prices, platforms, rooms and how many beers. Play the ten Afrikaans words against the clock, with a note on how locals really use each one after every answer. All ten are written out below.

Table Mountain from the slopes of Lion’s Head in Cape Town
Counting to ten
10 words · 20 seconds each · 8 of 10 to pass
What it meansHow to say it
Hilton Teper, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

All 10 Afrikaans phrases in this lesson

EenAYN
One
TweeTVAY
Two
DrieDREE
Three
VierFEER
Four
VyfFAYF
Five
SesSES
Six
SeweSAY-vuh
Seven
AgtAHKHT
Eight

The g is a throaty sound, similar to the consonant in Scottish loch.

NegeNAY-khuh
Nine
TienTEEN
Ten

Where Afrikaans is spoken

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