How to use demonstrative pronouns in Afrikaans

How to use demonstrative pronouns in Afrikaans

You want to learn how to use demonstrative pronouns in Afrikaans? You've come to the right place! Scroll down and see the short Afrikaans lessons complete with useful examples. This house, that house... we make learning Afrikaans demonstrative pronouns easy for you.

Afrikaans demonstrative pronouns : this

Demonstrative pronouns are used with nouns to make them more specific. The English demonstrative pronoun 'this' is 'hierdie' in Afrikaans.

Examples

hierdie appel
this apple
hierdie huis
this house
hierdie stoel
this chair
hierdie boek
this book
hierdie perd
this horse
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Step 6 : Afrikaans demonstrative pronouns

Demonstrative pronouns are used to refer to specific objects and their locations. In English, this would be the words this and these to refer to objects which are near and that and those to refer to objects which are further away. Using the nouns boek, stoel and deur (book, chair, door) which you learned in Step 3, learn to use the demonstrative pronouns with each of these nouns (this book, that chair, these doors). You can scroll to the top of this page to see a short lesson about Afrikaans demonstrative pronouns including useful examples. After you've learned to use the Afrikaans demonstrative pronouns with the nouns boek, stoel and deur and the plural nouns boeke, stoele and deure you can move on to Step 7 (Afrikaans adjectives).

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