Learn how to count to ten
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| INTRODUCTION |
| This lesson is very straightforward as we're going to cover counting from zero through to ten. Let's jump right in. |
Lesson focus |
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| I’ll say numbers in English first, then Afrikaans. Let’s start. |
| “zero.” |
| (slow) nul |
| nul |
| “one” |
| (slow) een |
| een |
| “two” |
| (slow) twee |
| twee |
| “three” |
| (slow) drie |
| drie |
| “four” |
| (slow) vier |
| vier |
| “five” |
| (slow) vyf |
| vyf |
| “six” |
| (slow) ses |
| ses |
| “seven” |
| (slow) sewe |
| sewe |
| “eight” |
| (slow) agt |
| agt |
| “nine” |
| (slow) nege |
| nege |
| “ten” |
| (slow) tien |
| tien |
| When you read a number with an object, for example, “three tomatoes,” the number comes first in Afrikaans, just like in English. In Afrikaans, “three tomatoes” is drie tomaties. “three tomatoes.” |
| (slow) drie tomaties |
| drie tomaties |
| Drie is the Afrikaans number “three” and we have the noun tomaties, meaning “tomatoes.” Tomaties is the plural of tomatie. In Afrikaans, as you have seen, nouns have singular and plural forms. |
| If you want to say "four tomatoes," you should say vier tomaties. |
| (slow) vier tomaties. |
| vier tomaties. |
| Numbers can be very useful, especially when shopping in South Africa. |
| Let's imagine you are buying some presents to bring back to your country. For example, imagine you would like to buy two bottles of good South African wine from the Western Cape. |
| Say "I would like to buy two bottles of wine." In Afrikaans, you can say Ek wil graag twee bottels wyn koop. |
| (slow) Ek wil graag twee bottels wyn koop. |
| Ek wil graag twee bottels wyn koop. |
| First we have Ek wil graag meaning “I would like to.” |
| (slow) Ek wil graag |
| Ek wil graag |
| Then we have the number twee meaning “two.” |
| (slow) twee |
| twee |
| It’s followed by bottels, which is the plural form for bottel, which means "bottle". |
| (slow) bottels |
| bottels |
| Next, we have the word wyn meaning “wine.” |
| (slow) wyn |
| wyn |
| And at the end, we have the verb meaning “to buy” which is koop in Afrikaans. |
| (slow) koop |
| koop |
| Altogether, once again, "I would like to buy two bottles of wine." in Afrikaans is.. |
| (slow) Ek wil graag twee bottels wyn koop. |
| Ek wil graag twee bottels wyn koop. |
| Instead of two bottles of wine, you can make a sentence about “two t-shirts.” in Afrikaans, “two t-shirts” is twee t-hemde. |
| (slow) twee t-hemde |
| twee t-hemde |
| Using this pattern you can say “I’d like to buy two t-shirts.” In Afrikaans, that is Ek wil graag twee t-hemde koop. |
| (slow) Ek wil graag twee t-hemde koop. |
| Ek wil graag twee t-hemde koop. |
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