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Afrikaans

Afrikaans animal names

Animal names are a favourite Afrikaans spelling list. Here are two sets: farm and home animals, like hond (dog) and koei (cow), and wild animals, like olifant (elephant) and kameelperd (giraffe). Tap any word to hear it.

Animal names are written with a small letter in Afrikaans.

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Farm and home

12 words
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Opens the free app with these words filled in. Change any word to match your child’s list.

Wild animals

12 words
Practise these words

Opens the free app with these words filled in. Change any word to match your child’s list.

Long names made of short words

Some Afrikaans animal names are two words in one. kameelperd (giraffe) is kameel (camel) plus perd (horse), and seekoei (hippo) is see (sea) plus koei (cow). Finding the small words inside helps your child spell the long one.

bobbejaan (baboon) has a double b in the middle, and voël (bird) has two dots on the e, which count in a test.

How to say them

hoender (chicken) has oe, said like the oo in food. leeu (lion) sounds like “lee-oo”. vark (pig) starts with an f sound, because v sounds like f. luiperd (leopard) has the ui sound, which is close to the ay in day, said with rounded lips.

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