ABSTRACT
The chapter talks about numerals, South African money, ordinal numerals, seasons, days of the week and months of the year, dates, public holidays, how to express age, telephoning, telling the time, separable verbs and inseparable verbs. The South African monetary unit is die rand. Ordinal numerals are first, second, third, fourth, etc. Apart from first, third and eighth the ordinal numerals up to nineteenth are simply the cardinal numerals with -de added to them. Telephone numbers are read out figure by figure as in English. The area code is called the streekskode. The infinitives of verbs like 'to turn on' and 'to turn off' that contain a preposition are written as one word in Afrikaans. Such verbs, which contain a stressed prepositional prefix, are called separable verbs because in certain tenses the preposition separates from the verb and are placed at the end of the clause; this is the case in the present tense and the imperative.
