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Afrika

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English

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Proper noun

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Afrika

  1. (African-American Vernacular, uncommon) Alternative spelling of Africa: the continent south of Europe and between the Atlantic and Indian Oceans
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Anagrams

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Afrikaans

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Etymology

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From Dutch Afrika.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈɑfɾikä/
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Proper noun

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Afrika

  1. Africa (the continent south of Europe and between the Atlantic and Indian Oceans)

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Albanian

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Proper noun

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Afrika

  1. definite nominative singular of Afrikë

Czech

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Czech Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia cs

Etymology

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Borrowed from Latin Africa.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): [ˈafrɪka]
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  • Hyphenation: Af‧ri‧ka

Proper noun

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Afrika f (relational adjective africký, demonym Afričan, female demonym Afričanka)

  1. Africa (the continent south of Europe and between the Atlantic and Indian Oceans)
    Severní AfrikaNorth Africa
  2. (historical) Africa (a former province of the Roman Empire, containing what is now Tunisia and portions of coastal Algeria and Libya)

Declension

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See also

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Further reading

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  • Afrika”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
  • Afrika”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
  • Afrika”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech), 2008–2025

Danish

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Proper noun

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Afrika c

  1. Africa (the continent south of Europe and between the Atlantic and Indian Oceans)

Dutch

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Etymology

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Ultimately from Latin Āfrica, from Āfer.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈaː.fri.kaː/
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  • Hyphenation: Afri‧ka

Proper noun

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Afrika n (adjective Afrikaans, demonym Afrikaan m or Afrikaanse f)

  1. Africa (the continent south of Europe and between the Atlantic and Indian Oceans)
    Meronyms: Centraal-Afrika, Equatoriaal-Afrika, Midden-Afrika, Noord-Afrika, Oost-Afrika, West-Afrika, Zuid-Afrika, Zuidwest-Afrika

Derived terms

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Descendants

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  • Indonesian: Afrika
  • Petjo: aprik

Gagauz

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Gagauz Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia gag

Proper noun

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Afrika

  1. Africa (the continent south of Europe and between the Atlantic and Indian Oceans)

German

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Alternative forms

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Pronunciation

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Afrika n (proper noun, genitive Afrikas or (optionally with an article) Afrika)

  1. Africa (the continent south of Europe and between the Atlantic and Indian Oceans)

Coordinate terms

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Derived terms

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Further reading

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  • Afrika” in Duden online
  • Afrika” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache

Hungarian

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 Afrika on Hungarian Wikipedia

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): [ˈɒfrikɒ]
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  • Hyphenation: Af‧ri‧ka
  • Rhymes: -kɒ

Proper noun

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Afrika

  1. Africa (the continent south of Europe and between the Atlantic and Indian Oceans)

Declension

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Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, back harmony)
singular plural
nominative Afrika
accusative Afrikát
dative Afrikának
instrumental Afrikával
causal-final Afrikáért
translative Afrikává
terminative Afrikáig
essive-formal Afrikaként
essive-modal
inessive Afrikában
superessive Afrikán
adessive Afrikánál
illative Afrikába
sublative Afrikára
allative Afrikához
elative Afrikából
delative Afrikáról
ablative Afrikától
non-attributive
possessive – singular
Afrikáé
non-attributive
possessive – plural
Afrikáéi
Possessive forms of Afrika
possessor single possession multiple possessions
1st person sing. Afrikám
2nd person sing. Afrikád
3rd person sing. Afrikája
1st person plural Afrikánk
2nd person plural Afrikátok
3rd person plural Afrikájuk

Derived terms

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Ido

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Proper noun

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Afrika

  1. Africa (the continent south of Europe and between the Atlantic and Indian Oceans)

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Indonesian

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Indonesian Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia id

Etymology

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From Dutch Afrika.

Pronunciation

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Proper noun

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Afrika

  1. Africa (the continent south of Europe and between the Atlantic and Indian Oceans)
  2. (historical) Africa (a former province of the Roman Empire, containing what is now Tunisia and portions of coastal Algeria and Libya)

Derived terms

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Further reading

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Kashubian

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Kashubian Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia csb

Etymology

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Borrowed from Polish Afryka.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /aˈfri.ka/
  • Rhymes: -ika
  • Syllabification: A‧fri‧ka

Proper noun

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Afrika f

  1. Africa (the continent south of Europe and between the Atlantic and Indian Oceans)

Further reading

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  • Sychta, Bernard (1967) “Afrika”, in Słownik gwar kaszubskich [Dictionary of Kashubian dialects] (in Polish), volumes 1 (A – Ǵ), Wrocław: Ossolineum, page 2
  • Jan Trepczyk (1994) “Afryka”, in Słownik polsko-kaszubski (in Kashubian), volumes 1–2
  • Eùgeniusz Gòłąbk (2011) “Afryka”, in Słownik Polsko-Kaszubski / Słowôrz Pòlskò-Kaszëbsczi[1]
  • Afrika”, in Internetowi Słowôrz Kaszëbsczégò Jãzëka [Internet Dictionary of the Kashubian Language], Fundacja Kaszuby, 2022

Lithuanian

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Proper noun

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Afrika f

  1. Africa (the continent south of Europe and between the Atlantic and Indian Oceans)
  2. (historical) Africa (a former province of the Roman Empire, containing what is now Tunisia and portions of coastal Algeria and Libya)

Declension

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Declension of Afrika
nominative Afrika
genitive Afrikos
dative Afrikai
accusative Afriką
instrumental Afrika
locative Afrikoje
vocative Afrika
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Lower Sorbian

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Latin Āfrica.

Pronunciation

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Afrika f

  1. Africa (the continent south of Europe and between the Atlantic and Indian Oceans)

Declension

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Further reading

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  • Muka, Arnošt (1921, 1928) “Afrika”, in Słownik dolnoserbskeje rěcy a jeje narěcow (in German), St. Petersburg, Prague: ОРЯС РАН, ČAVU; Reprinted Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag, 2008
  • Starosta, Manfred (1999) “Afrika”, in Dolnoserbsko-nimski słownik / Niedersorbisch-deutsches Wörterbuch (in German), Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag

Luxembourgish

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Luxembourgish Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia lb

Proper noun

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Afrika n

  1. Africa (the continent south of Europe and between the Atlantic and Indian Oceans)

Malay

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Afrika

Etymology

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Borrowed from English Africa or Dutch Afrika, from Latin Āfrica.

Pronunciation

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Proper noun

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Afrika (Jawi spelling افريکا)

  1. Africa (the continent south of Europe and between the Atlantic and Indian Oceans)

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Further reading

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Maltese

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Italian Africa.

Pronunciation

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L-Afrika f

  1. Africa (the continent south of Europe and between the Atlantic and Indian Oceans)

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Norwegian Bokmål

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Norwegian Bokmål Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia nb
Afrika

Proper noun

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Afrika

  1. Africa (the continent south of Europe and between the Atlantic and Indian Oceans)

Derived terms

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Norwegian Nynorsk

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Norwegian Nynorsk Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia nn

Proper noun

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Afrika

  1. Africa (the continent south of Europe and between the Atlantic and Indian Oceans)

Derived terms

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Plautdietsch

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Proper noun

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Afrika f

  1. Africa (the continent south of Europe and between the Atlantic and Indian Oceans)

Serbo-Croatian

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Latin Āfrica.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ǎfrika/
  • Hyphenation: A‧fri‧ka

Proper noun

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Àfrika f (Cyrillic spelling А̀фрика)

  1. Africa (the continent south of Europe and between the Atlantic and Indian Oceans)
  2. (historical) Africa (a former province of the Roman Empire, containing what is now Tunisia and portions of coastal Algeria and Libya)

Declension

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References

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  • Afrika”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025

Slovak

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Latin Āfrica.

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Proper noun

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Afrika f (genitive singular Afriky, declension pattern of žena)

  1. Africa (the continent south of Europe and between the Atlantic and Indian Oceans)

Declension

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Derived terms

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References

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  • Afrika”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2003–2025

Slovene

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Pronunciation

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Ȃfrika f

  1. Africa (the continent south of Europe and between the Atlantic and Indian Oceans)
  2. (historical) Africa (a former province of the Roman Empire, containing what is now Tunisia and portions of coastal Algeria and Libya)

Declension

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The diacritics used in this section of the entry are non-tonal. If you are a native tonal speaker, please help by adding the tonal marks.
Feminine, a-stem
nominative Áfrika
genitive Áfrike
singular
nominative
(imenovȃlnik)
Áfrika
genitive
(rodȋlnik)
Áfrike
dative
(dajȃlnik)
Áfriki
accusative
(tožȋlnik)
Áfriko
locative
(mẹ̑stnik)
Áfriki
instrumental
(orọ̑dnik)
Áfriko
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Swahili

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Swahili Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia sw

Etymology

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Ultimately from Latin Africa, either by way of German Afrika or English Africa.

Pronunciation

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Proper noun

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Afrika

  1. Africa (the continent south of Europe and between the Atlantic and Indian Oceans)
  2. (historical) Africa (a former province of the Roman Empire, containing what is now Tunisia and portions of coastal Algeria and Libya)

Derived terms

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Swedish

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Swedish Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia sv

Proper noun

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Afrika n (genitive Afrikas)

  1. Africa (the continent south of Europe and between the Atlantic and Indian Oceans)
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References

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Tok Pisin

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From English Africa.

Proper noun

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Afrika

  1. Africa (the continent south of Europe and between the Atlantic and Indian Oceans)

Tsonga

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Noun

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Afrika

  1. Africa (the continent south of Europe and between the Atlantic and Indian Oceans)

Turkish

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Etymology

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From Ottoman Turkish آفریقه.

Proper noun

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Afrika

  1. Africa (the continent south of Europe and between the Atlantic and Indian Oceans)
  2. (historical) Africa (a former province of the Roman Empire, containing what is now Tunisia and portions of coastal Algeria and Libya)

Turkmen

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Other scripts
Latin Afrika
Cyrillic Африка
Arabic آفریقا

Etymology

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Borrowed from Russian А́фрика (Áfrika), from Latin Āfrica.

Proper noun

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Afrika

  1. Africa (the continent south of Europe and between the Atlantic and Indian Oceans)

Upper Sorbian

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Etymology

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Ultimately from Latin Āfrica.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈafʀika/
  • Rhymes: -afʀika
  • Hyphenation: Af‧ri‧ka
  • Syllabification: Af‧ri‧ka

Proper noun

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Afrika f

  1. Africa (the continent south of Europe and between the Atlantic and Indian Oceans)

Declension

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Derived terms

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proper nouns

References

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Uzbek

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Pronunciation

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Proper noun

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Afrika

  1. Africa (the continent south of Europe and between the Atlantic and Indian Oceans)

Declension

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Declension of Afrika
singular plural
nominative Afrika Afrikalar
genitive Afrikaning Afrikalarning
dative Afrikaga Afrikalarga
definite accusative Afrikani Afrikalarni
locative Afrikada Afrikalarda
ablative Afrikadan Afrikalardan
similative Afrikadek Afrikalardek
Possessive forms of Afrika
1st person singular
singular plural
nominative Afrikam Afrikalarim
genitive Afrikamning Afrikalarimning
dative Afrikamga Afrikalarimga
definite accusative Afrikamni Afrikalarimni
locative Afrikamda Afrikalarimda
ablative Afrikamdan Afrikalarimdan
similative Afrikamdek Afrikalarimdek
2nd person singular
singular plural
nominative Afrikang Afrikalaring
genitive Afrikangning Afrikalaringning
dative Afrikangga Afrikalaringga
definite accusative Afrikangni Afrikalaringni
locative Afrikangda Afrikalaringda
ablative Afrikangdan Afrikalaringdan
similative Afrikangdek Afrikalaringdek
3rd person singular
singular plural
nominative Afrikasi Afrikalari
genitive Afrikasining Afrikalarining
dative Afrikasiga Afrikalariga
definite accusative Afrikasini Afrikalarini
locative Afrikasida Afrikalarida
ablative Afrikasidan Afrikalaridan
similative Afrikasidek Afrikalaridek
1st person plural
singular plural
nominative Afrikamiz Afrikalarimiz
genitive Afrikamizning Afrikalarimizning
dative Afrikamizga Afrikalarimizga
definite accusative Afrikamizni Afrikalarimizni
locative Afrikamizda Afrikalarimizda
ablative Afrikamizdan Afrikalarimizdan
similative Afrikamizdek Afrikalarimizdek
2nd person plural
singular plural
nominative Afrikangiz Afrikalaringiz
genitive Afrikangizning Afrikalaringizning
dative Afrikangizga Afrikalaringizga
definite accusative Afrikangizni Afrikalaringizni
locative Afrikangizda Afrikalaringizda
ablative Afrikangizdan Afrikalaringizdan
similative Afrikangizdek Afrikalaringizdek
3rd person plural
singular plural
nominative Afrikasi Afrikalari
genitive Afrikasining Afrikalarining
dative Afrikasiga Afrikalariga
definite accusative Afrikasini Afrikalarini
locative Afrikasida Afrikalarida
ablative Afrikasidan Afrikalaridan
similative Afrikasidek Afrikalaridek

Yoruba

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Etymology

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English Africa

Proper noun

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Áfríkà

  1. Archaic spelling of Afíríkà (Africa).