English - Afrikaans Translations

[FeralBanana]

I was wondering (for those of us slightly linguistically challenged), what various members of the clan use to find words they aren't familiar with in Afrikaans (or English, if your first language is Afr.).

I personally use three resources:
A free, downloadable dictionary that is utterly useless, but has a few words in it that I might have forgotten
http://freelang.net/

Ask Neil :p
http://www.wargeeks.org/private.php?do=newpm&u=110

Search Google for Afrikaans translators and use whatever comes up
http://interpret.co.za/html/vertaler.php <-- works fairly well

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Was wondering if there were any better programs out there? possibly something to stick into MS office (word/ppt etc that recognises Afr incl. spelling errors etc.?)


Thankies, spankies, hankies, Koeksisters. :D

[Stool]

well im first language afrikaans and everytime one of you pops me a big english word i use this app called wordweb at www.wordweb.co.uk

very handy desktop tray program

[TG]

If it's afrikaans, I ask my wife. :p
English stuff I've got a webster dictionary search plugin thing for firefox, so it's available at the top right of my browser.

[BioGizzard]

i just use my well attuned common sence

i'll gaive you some examples :

pap sop nat = porridge soup wet
Kruiwa = herb wagon
Bicycle = baie sukkel
starter motor = knorr moer

see it's very easy really

[Stool]

wanna teach a foreigner how to say "thank you" in afrikaans?

tell them to say "Buy a donkey"

[GeroW4lll]

I can't recommend the Woordeboek van die Afrikaanse Taal (WAT) (http://www.woordeboek.co.za/) to anyone. They require payment, registration, installation of a java applet or something. And they manage to make a dictionary more complicated through the use of a computer. I didn't know thats even possible LOL.

Unfortunately I've never found a good English-Afrikaans dictionary on line through google either. There are several but most have bad data or very limited vocabulary.

[Sminty]

Me is the same as TG is its plank I ask my plank wife who generally doesn't know either and if its english then I probably said it.

So stool what big words did you hear today? Was it 'big' perhaps? :P

[SlappY]

It's easy. I just dont speak code. Dont try, never going to. My teachers tried for many years, they failed.

[Stool]

It's easy. I just dont speak code. Dont try, never going to. My teachers tried for many years, they failed.

wahahahaha big mouth

i can still remember u speaking afrikaans just fine with mr Talke

[sss]

if stool attempts to speak any afrikaans around us.. we issue him 2 x right handers and 1 x left hander to the face... crack a joke about him being afrikaans and then carry on like nothing was really said!

[Stool]

:cuckoo: :spanky:
dis nie waar nie

julle is maaaaar net jaloers! :cool:

[Sminty]

I looked up maaaaar and it didn't give me anything!

[Vortex]

Doesn't it mean skinny, or anorexic?

[Onyx]

lol, Vortex

you must be thinking of 'maer'

'maar' is butt :booty:

oops, not that butt - 'but' with just one 't'