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Old 2008-11-07, 06:37   Link #17849
Keroko
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Originally Posted by Soljashy View Post
Correct, except that "jammer" in this case means "sorry".
Oh, so the meaning is more dual-faced in Afrikaans? Well, technically you could use it for sorry in Dutch too, but you don't see it that often.

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Originally Posted by Soljashy View Post
It's a colloquial contraction of "daardie" (which means "that").
Daardie... two Dutch words in that one, daar and die... 'there' and 'that'

Makes sense.
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