On this page you'll find 10+ example sentences with Afrikaners. Discover the meaning, how to use the word correctly in a sentence.
Afrikaners meaning
plural of Afrikaner
Using Afrikaners
- The main meaning on this page is: plural of Afrikaner
- In the example corpus, afrikaners often appears in combinations such as: the afrikaners, afrikaners are.
Context around Afrikaners
- Average sentence length in these examples: 23.9 words
- Position in the sentence: 5 start, 6 middle, 3 end
- Sentence types: 14 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Afrikaners
- In this selection, "afrikaners" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 23.9 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, descended, asians, cape, living, portuguese and fears stand out and add context to how "afrikaners" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include afrikaners are descended and among the afrikaners at first. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "afrikaners" sits close to words such as aat, abhorrence and abms, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with afrikaners
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Asians, Afrikaners, Portuguese, and black Mozambicans speak their own languages. (10 words)
Printed material among the Afrikaners at first used only standard European Dutch. (12 words)
The defeat however consummated many Afrikaners' ambition: South Africa would be under white rule. (14 words)
Many Afrikaners and Anglo-Africans emigrated to Perth during the 1980s and 1990s, with the phrase "packing for Perth" becoming associated with South Africans who choose to emigrate abroad, sometimes regardless of the destination. (34 words)
Serving under the command of General Andries Cronje, the National Scouts were despised as hensoppers (collaborators) but came to number a fifth of the fighting Afrikaners by the end of the War. (32 words)
According to the 2006 US Census, more than 5 million Americans claim total or partial Dutch ancestry. citation There are close to 3 million Dutch-descended Afrikaners living in South Africa. (31 words)
Example sentences (14)
According to the 2006 US Census, more than 5 million Americans claim total or partial Dutch ancestry. citation There are close to 3 million Dutch-descended Afrikaners living in South Africa.
Afrikaners are descended from 17th century Dutch settlers to South Africa More broadly, early Medieval Germanic peoples were often assimilated into the walha substrate cultures of their subject populations.
Asians, Afrikaners, Portuguese, and black Mozambicans speak their own languages.
Even though the Afrikaners are a small group (10%) within the white minority group, Afrikaner recipes are popular.
His songs "Ons Sal Dit Oorleef" (We will survive this)and "My Kreed" (My Cry) also echoes many Afrikaners' fears of losing their culture and rights.
Many Afrikaners and Anglo-Africans emigrated to Perth during the 1980s and 1990s, with the phrase "packing for Perth" becoming associated with South Africans who choose to emigrate abroad, sometimes regardless of the destination.
Many white Cape Afrikaners resented the display and expense, the war having weakened their capacity to reconcile their Afrikaner-Dutch culture with their status as British subjects.
Printed material among the Afrikaners at first used only standard European Dutch.
Serving under the command of General Andries Cronje, the National Scouts were despised as hensoppers (collaborators) but came to number a fifth of the fighting Afrikaners by the end of the War.
Since the Anglo-Boer war, the term "Boerevolk" was rarely used in the 20th century by the various regimes because of the effort to assimilate the Boerevolk with the Afrikaners.
The Boers are the smaller segment within the Afrikaner designation, as the Afrikaners of Cape Dutch origin are more numerous.
The defeat however consummated many Afrikaners' ambition: South Africa would be under white rule.
The terms "boerseun" (farm boy) and "boeremeisie" (farm girl) became popular among young white Afrikaners for expressing national pride, whether-or-not they actually grew up on a farm.
With their horses and guns, the Afrikaners proved to be militarily superior and forced the Herero to give them cattle as tribute.
Common combinations with afrikaners
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: