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Intro |
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| Basic Bootcamp Lesson 5: Counting from 100-1,000,000 in Afrikaans |
| Eric: Hi everyone, Eric here, and welcome back to AfrikaansPod101.com. This is Basic Bootcamp Lesson 5 - Counting from 100-1,000,000 in Afrikaans. This is the fifth in a five-part series that will help you ease your way into Afrikaans. |
| Pieter: Hallo, my naam is Pieter. I’m Pieter! |
| Eric: In this lesson, we'll continue with more of the essentials of Afrikaans numbers. But in this lesson, we’ll venture into higher number territory, the numbers over one hundred, all the way to one million. |
| Pieter: The conversation takes place at the auction and it’s between two people who are strangers. |
| Eric: Let’s listen to the conversation! |
Lesson conversation |
| Zani: Honderd. |
| Pieter: Tweehonderd. |
| Zani: Driehonderd. |
| Pieter: Vierhonderd. |
| Zani: Vyfhonderd. |
| Pieter: Seshonderd. |
| Zani: Sewehonderd. |
| Pieter: Agthonderd. |
| Zani: Negehonderd. |
| Pieter: Duisend. |
| Zani: Tienduisend. |
| Pieter: Honderdduisend. |
| Zani: Miljoen. |
| Eric: Let’s hear it slowly now. |
| Zani: Honderd. |
| Pieter: Tweehonderd. |
| Zani: Driehonderd. |
| Pieter: Vierhonderd. |
| Zani: Vyfhonderd. |
| Pieter: Seshonderd. |
| Zani: Sewehonderd. |
| Pieter: Agthonderd. |
| Zani: Negehonderd. |
| Pieter: Duisend. |
| Zani: Tienduisend. |
| Pieter: Honderdduisend. |
| Zani: Miljoen. |
| Eric: And now with the translation. |
| Zani: Honderd. |
| Eric: One hundred. |
| Pieter: Tweehonderd. |
| Eric: Two hundred. |
| Zani: Driehonderd. |
| Eric: Three hundred. |
| Pieter: Vierhonderd. |
| Eric: Four hundred. |
| Zani: Vyfhonderd. |
| Eric: Five hundred. |
| Pieter: Seshonderd. |
| Eric: Six hundred. |
| Zani: Sewehonderd. |
| Eric: Seven hundred. |
| Pieter: Agthonderd. |
| Eric: Eight hundred. |
| Zani: Negehonderd. |
| Eric: Nine hundred. |
| Pieter: Duisend. |
| Eric: One thousand. |
| Zani: Tienduisend. |
| Eric: Ten thousand. |
| Pieter: Honderdduisend. |
| Eric: One hundred thousand. |
| Zani: Miljoen. |
| Eric: One million. |
| POST CONVERSATION BANTER |
| Eric: Let's use these numbers a little. Let's talk about people in South Africa. |
| Pieter: Eric, do you know how many people live in South Africa? |
| Eric: Yeah, the population in South Africa is close to 53 million. I think that’s almost as big as the UK! |
| Pieter: That’s right. South Africa is one of the largest countries in the world in terms of population. It’s big in area too. Did you know it is about the same size as France and Spain put together? |
| Eric: So is Pretoria, the capital, your biggest city? |
| Pieter: No, the biggest city is Johannesburg, with 4.5 million people. |
| Eric: How about Cape Town, what’s the population there? |
| Pieter: The population there is about 3.7 million. |
| Eric: That’s a lot. Okay, now onto the vocab. |
| Vocabulary and Phrases |
| Eric: Let’s have a look at the vocabulary for this lesson. First we have... |
| Pieter: honderd [natural native speed] |
| Eric: hundred (100) |
| Pieter: honderd [slowly - broken down by syllable] |
| Pieter: honderd [natural native speed] |
| : Next: |
| Pieter: tweehonderd [natural native speed] |
| Eric: two hundred (200) |
| Pieter: tweehonderd [slowly - broken down by syllable] |
| Pieter: tweehonderd [natural native speed] |
| : Next: |
| Pieter: driehonderd [natural native speed] |
| Eric: three hundred (300) |
| Pieter: driehonderd [slowly - broken down by syllable] |
| Pieter: driehonderd [natural native speed] |
| : Next: |
| Pieter: vierhonderd [natural native speed] |
| Eric: four hundred (400) |
| Pieter: vierhonderd [slowly - broken down by syllable] |
| Pieter: vierhonderd [natural native speed] |
| : Next: |
| Pieter: vyfhonderd [natural native speed] |
| Eric: five hundred (500) |
| Pieter: vyfhonderd [slowly - broken down by syllable] |
| Pieter: vyfhonderd [natural native speed] |
| : Next: |
| Pieter: seshonderd [natural native speed] |
| Eric: six hundred (600) |
| Pieter: seshonderd [slowly - broken down by syllable] |
| Pieter: seshonderd [natural native speed] |
| : Next: |
| Pieter: sewenhonderd [natural native speed] |
| Eric: seven hundred (700) |
| Pieter: sewenhonderd [slowly - broken down by syllable] |
| Pieter: sewenhonderd [natural native speed] |
| : Next: |
| Pieter: agthonderd [natural native speed] |
| Eric: eight hundred (800) |
| Pieter: agthonderd [slowly - broken down by syllable] |
| Pieter: agthonderd [natural native speed] |
| : Next: |
| Pieter: negehonderd [natural native speed] |
| Eric: nine hundred (900) |
| Pieter: negehonderd [slowly - broken down by syllable] |
| Pieter: negehonderd [natural native speed] |
| : Next: |
| Pieter: duisend [natural native speed] |
| Eric: one thousand (1,000) |
| Pieter: duisend [slowly - broken down by syllable] |
| Pieter: duisend [natural native speed] |
| : Next: |
| Pieter: tienduisend [natural native speed] |
| Eric: ten thousand (10,000) |
| Pieter: tienduisend [slowly - broken down by syllable] |
| Pieter: tienduisend [natural native speed] |
| : Next: |
| Pieter: honderdduisend [natural native speed] |
| Eric: one hundred thousand (100,000) |
| Pieter: honderdduisend [slowly - broken down by syllable] |
| Pieter: honderdduisend [natural native speed] |
| : And last: |
| Pieter: miljoen [natural native speed] |
| Eric: million (1,000,000) |
| Pieter: miljoen [slowly - broken down by syllable] |
| Pieter: miljoen [natural native speed] |
| KEY VOCABULARY AND PHRASES |
| Eric: Now let’s have a look at the numbers zero and a million. |
| Pieter: In Afrikaans, these are nul and miljoen respectively. You can use these just as numbers, but we also use them in some idioms and phrases. For example, nul can be someone or something that’s not important. |
| Eric: As in...“He’s a real loser” right? |
| Pieter: Right. For that, you’d say Hy is ‘n groot nul. Or you can use it in the phrase van nul en gener waarde or “null and void.” |
| Eric: Which means “it’s useless.” |
| Pieter: And we have Miljoen. It means “one million” but it can be used to mean a millionaire, too. |
| Eric: Good to know. Okay, now onto the lesson focus. |
Lesson focus |
| Eric: The focus in this lesson is how to say numbers larger than one hundred in Afrikaans. Let's take a look at the structure of multiples of one hundred. |
| Pieter: We've already learned how to say "one hundred” in Afrikaans – it’s honderd. Make sure you read the number without the number “one” in front. So to build multiples of one hundred, we simply take the numbers two to nine and add -honderd at the end. |
| Eric: Okay. Let’s go through the hundreds one by one. Pieter, could you give us two hundred to nine hundred in Afrikaans? Let’s start with two hundred. |
| Pieter: twee-honderd {pause} drie-honderd, {pause} vier-honderd {pause} vyf-honderd {pause} ses-honderd {pause} sewe-honderd, {pause} agt-honderd, {pause}nege-honderd |
| Eric: In the previous Boot Camp lesson, we also learned how to build three-digit numbers with one hundred. Now we'll use the same system to build the numbers 200 through 999. |
| Pieter: For example, vierhonderdeen |
| Eric: "Four hundred and one" sounds familiar. Oh, there is a horror TV show in America called "Room 401." What’s next? |
| Pieter: Tweehonderdseweëndertig |
| Eric: It’s the number 237. Room 237 was the one in Steven King's "The Shining," the one all the horror started from! |
| Pieter: Yeah, somehow I have a good memory for creepy things. And next is negehonderdveertien. |
| Eric: Again, we have a literal translation into English, "914." And luckily, I have a better association with this number. There was a cute old Porsche built about forty years ago called VW-Porsche 914. |
| Pieter: And about five years earlier, the Porsche negehonderdtwaalf was built. |
| Eric: Ah yes, the "Porsche 912." Okay, can you remember any other interesting things about the numbers one thousand and above? But first, Pieter, give us the word for "thousands". |
| Pieter: Duisend |
| Eric: So one thousand? |
| Pieter: Duisend means "thousand". You don't say "one" here. |
| Eric: And "four thousand?" |
| Pieter: Vierduisend |
| Eric: So we take the number four and then add one thousand. Listeners, repeat after Pieter. This is 1,000 to 9,000 in Afrikaans. |
| Pieter: duisend {pause} twee-duisend {pause} drie-duisend pause} vier-duisend (pause} vyf-duisend{pause} ses-duisend (pause} sewe-duisend,{pause} agt-duisend,{pause} nege-duisend |
| Eric: How would you say twenty-one thousand, twenty-two thousand, twenty-three thousand, twenty-four thousand and so on? |
| Pieter: We just say een-en-twintigduisend, twee-en-twintigduisend, drie-en-twintigduisend, vier-en-twintigduisend, and so on. |
| Eric: So you just take a number from one to nine and then add a multiple of ten, and add "thousand." Easy as that! Can you give us a complicated four-digit number? |
| Pieter: tweeduisendsestien |
| Eric: Listeners, can you guess what it is? That was two thousand and sixteen. |
| Pieter: How about negentig-duisend-twee-honderd-tien. |
| Eric: Another TV show number, 90210. But in Afrikaans we'd say that as, "ninety thousand two hundred ten." |
| Pieter: So the formula with numbers in the thousands is first you say how many thousands you have, then how many hundreds, then ones and finally the tens, linked with en. |
| Eric: Yes, that last part was the tricky part, so let’s practice once more with that. Let’s say 8888. |
| Pieters: In Afrikaans, that would be: Agt-duisend-agt-honderd-agt-en-tagtig. |
| Eric: Wow, that sounds great. |
| Pieter: Yes, I am more than satisfied with my number quota for the day! |
Outro |
| Eric: Well, that’s it for this lesson and this series. |
| Pieter: Thanks for listening. Goeie Dag! (Bye in Afrikaans) |
| Eric: We’ll see you in the next series. Bye everyone! |
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