Set 1
10 wordsOpens the free app with these words filled in. Change any word to match your child’s list.
Set 2
10 wordsOpens the free app with these words filled in. Change any word to match your child’s list.
Set 3
10 wordsOpens the free app with these words filled in. Change any word to match your child’s list.
What the marks mean
The little hat on ê and ô is called a kappie. It makes the sound long and open: ê is like the vowel in air, and ô is like the aw in saw. The two dots on ë are called a deelteken. They tell you to say that vowel on its own, as a new beat, so reën has two beats, not one.
A missing mark is a spelling mistake in a test. se without the hat is a different word, so the mark is part of the spelling. In the app, your child gets a hint (“Amper! Kyk na die tekens”, which means “Almost! Check the marks”) and a row of marked letters to tap.
Plurals and endings
Most Afrikaans plurals add -e or -s: boom becomes bome and tafel becomes tafels. After a short vowel, the last letter doubles: kat becomes katte. Some words drop their g: dag becomes dae. A few are different again, like kind becoming kinders.
The ending -heid turns a describing word into a thing: vry (free) becomes vryheid (freedom). The ending -lik often works like the English -ly: vriend (friend) becomes vriendelik (friendly).
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