Afrikaans Nouns

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!

Afrikaans Nouns

Learning the Afrikaans Nouns is very important because its structure is used in every day conversation. The more you practice the subject, the closer you get to mastering the Afrikaans language. But first we need to know what the role of Nouns is in the structure of the grammar in Afrikaans.

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:

As you can see from the example above, 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.)

List of Nouns in Afrikaans

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.

Nouns and Words have a very important role in Afrikaans, therefore they need very special attention. 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.