Words for family members and other relatives in Afrikaans, a West Germanic language descended from Dutch and spoken mainly in South Africa and Namibia.
Afrikaans | |
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family | familie |
parents | ouers |
father | vader |
mother | ma |
children | kinders |
son | seun |
daughter | dogter |
husband | man |
wife | vrou |
brother | broer |
sister | suster |
uncle | oom |
aunt | tante |
cousin | neef |
nephew | neef |
niece | niggie |
grandparents | grootouers |
grandfather | oupa |
grandmother | ouma |
grandchildren | kleinkinders |
grandson | kleinseun |
granddaughter | kleindogter |
father-in-law | skoonvader |
mother-in-law | skoonmoeder |
brother-in-law | swaer |
sister-in-law | skoonsuster |
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