Afrikaans–English dictionary
English translation of the Afrikaans word kort
| Afrikaans | English (translated indirectly) | Esperanto |
|---|---|---|
🔗 Die hare van die pels is kort en grof, en word yler met toenemende ouderdom. | ||
🔗 Die Amerikaanse aktrise Raquel Welch is Woensdag in die ouderdom van 82 jaar oorlede na ’n kort siekbed. | ||
deficit | ||
🔗 Dié tekort is veroorsaak deur ’n afname van bykans 15% in Suid‐Afrikaanse uitvoer. | ||
| (gebrek; leemte) | ; ; | |
🔗 Vir die Russe, wat om verskeie redes met ’n tekort aan mannekrag en toerusting te make het, was dit genoeg rede om die grootste deel van hul slaankrag te konsentreer in die suide, waar die Oekraïense aanval verwag is. | ||
| Afrikaans | English |
|---|---|
| kort | brief; compendious; concise; rebate; short; shorten; short‐set; snappy; snippety; summary |
| kort aangebonde | short‐tempered |
| kort en klein slaan | smash to smithereens |
| kort maar kragtig | brevity is the soul of wit; short but sweet |
| kort van asem | short‐breathed |
| kort van geld | short story; short of money |
| met die kortste pad | by the nearest road |
| om kort te gaan | to be brief; to make a long story short; in short |
| … te kort | short by … |
| te kort doen | derogate; detract; victimize; wrong |
| te kort skiet | fall short of; fault; be wanting |
| bekort | cut short; guillotine; shorten |
| gekort | cropped |
| inkort | abridge; curtail; derogate; dock; retrench |
| kortaf | abrupt; blunt; bluntly; brusque; cavalier; curt; off‐hand; roundly; shortly; shortspoken; short; summary; unceremoniously |
| kortafstandopname | close shot |
| kortbekseekoet | Brünnich’s guillemot; thick‐billed murre |
| kortbroek | shorts |
| kortegolfstasie | short‐wave station |
| korterig | shortish |
| kortgeknip | close‐cropped |
| kortgolf | short wave |
| kortheid | abruptness; brevity; briefness; conciseness; curtness; shortness; snappiness; terseness |
| korthou | keep short |
| korting | deduction; discount; rebate; rebatement; reduction |
| kortkom | fall short; run short; be short of |
| kortliks | shortly; in short |
| kortraak | run short of |
| kortsigtig | mole‐eyed; purblind; short‐sighted; undiscerning; unstatesmanlike |
| kortsigwissel | short bill; short‐dated bill |
| kortsinjaal | doll‐signal |
| kortsluiting | short‐circuit; short |
| kortsteelpyp | nosewarmer |
| kortstondig | ephemeral; evanescent; short; short‐lived; momentary; fugitive; transitory; transient; passing |
| korttelling | undercast |
| korttermynhuur | short lease |
| kort‐van‐draad | waspish |
| kortverhaal | short story |
| tekort | deficiency; deficit; defect; shortage; undershot |
| verkort | abbreviate; abridge; boil down; compact; condense; contracted; curtail; curtailed; detruncate; epitomize; syncopate; foreshorten; reduce; abbreviated |