Category:Afrikaans terms by usage
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Afrikaans terms categorized by the manner and context in which they are used by speakers.
- Category:Afrikaans archaic terms: Afrikaans terms that are no longer in general use but still encountered in older literature and still sometimes used for special effect.
- Category:Afrikaans childish terms: Afrikaans terms that are typically only used by, or to, children.
- Category:Afrikaans colloquialisms: Afrikaans terms that are likely to be used primarily in casual conversation rather than in more formal written works, speeches, and discourse.
- Category:Afrikaans dated terms: Afrikaans terms that are no longer fashionable, thus are anachronistic.
- Category:Afrikaans derogatory terms: Afrikaans terms that are intended to disparage, demean, insult or offend.
- Category:Afrikaans dialectal terms: Afrikaans terms that are not used in standard language but only in dialects.
- Category:Afrikaans endearing terms: Afrikaans terms that are used to show affection or endearment to another person.
- Category:Afrikaans formal terms: Afrikaans terms whose use is typically restricted to polite, ceremonious, non-casual contexts.
- Category:Afrikaans higher register terms: Afrikaans terms belonging to a higher linguistic register, such as literary terms; such terms are somewhat less common or known.
- Category:Afrikaans humorous terms: Afrikaans terms that are humorous, amusing or joking.
- Category:Afrikaans informal terms: Afrikaans terms whose use is typically restricted to casual, non‐ceremonious conversations.
- Category:Afrikaans nonstandard terms: Afrikaans terms that are considered improper, incorrect or commonly misused.
- Category:Afrikaans offensive terms: Afrikaans terms that are typically considered to offend people.
- Category:Afrikaans poetic terms: Afrikaans terms whose usage is typically restricted to works of poetry.
- Category:Afrikaans short forms: Afrikaans terms that are short forms of other terms, often used informally.
- Category:Afrikaans slang: Afrikaans colloquial terms that are typically used to mark membership in a cultural subgroup.
- Category:Afrikaans terms with archaic senses: Afrikaans terms that are no longer in general use but still encountered in older literature and still sometimes used for special effect.
- Category:Afrikaans terms with historical senses: Afrikaans terms with senses that refer to things or concepts mainly known for their historical value.
- Category:Afrikaans terms with obsolete senses: Afrikaans terms that are no longer in current use, but found in older texts.
- Category:Afrikaans terms with rare senses: Afrikaans rarely used terms or terms with rarely used senses.
- Category:Afrikaans terms with uncommon senses: Afrikaans uncommonly used terms or terms with uncommonly used senses.
- Category:Afrikaans uncommon terms: Afrikaans uncommonly used terms.
- Category:Afrikaans vulgarities: Afrikaans terms whose tone (rather than the meaning) is offensive to polite company.
Subcategories
This category has the following 23 subcategories, out of 23 total.
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- Afrikaans childish terms (0 c, 3 e)
- Afrikaans colloquialisms (0 c, 27 e)
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- Afrikaans derogatory terms (0 c, 21 e)
- Afrikaans dialectal terms (0 c, 6 e)
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- Afrikaans endearing terms (0 c, 2 e)
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- Afrikaans formal terms (0 c, 4 e)
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- Afrikaans humorous terms (0 c, 6 e)
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- Afrikaans poetic terms (0 c, 2 e)
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- Afrikaans short forms (0 c, 3 e)
- Afrikaans slang (0 c, 21 e)
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- Afrikaans terms with archaic senses (0 c, 20 e)
- Afrikaans terms with historical senses (0 c, 20 e)
- Afrikaans terms with rare senses (0 c, 28 e)
- Afrikaans terms with uncommon senses (0 c, 33 e)