Verkleinwoorde | How to pronounce diminutives in Afrikaans and their rules

In this video we are going to introduce you to diminutives or "verkleinwoorde" in Afrikaans. Because there are quite a few rules, they can feel overwhelming, confusing and hard to remember.
But don't worry. We are going to introduce each diminutive individually and show you the pronunciation of each and get that right first. Only then will we introduce the rules for each of the diminutives in a structured way, because when things are presented logically and in a structured way, the brain will recognize it as a pattern and that will also make it easier to remember.
So what is a diminutive or "verkleinwoord" in Afrikaans? If you take a word like "hond", we typically say "Dit is 'n hond.". If we now make that word small it becomes "hondjie". Notice the ending with "ie". So we say "Dit is 'n klein hondjie." The word "klein" or also our clue that the word has been made small or put into the diminutive form.
So how do we actually make a word smaller? We do it by adding some letters to the end of the word. In Afrikaans it will always be at the end of the word. The first one is "ie", which is the basic form that will be expanded on with more letters to make up the other longer diminutive forms.
We will also look at how to change the diminutives into the plural form and what to do if a word is already in its plural form, but not yet in it's diminutive form.
Lastly we will look at a few words for which none of the rules apply and which we need to treat as exceptions.
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