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Afrika

See also: Afríka, Āfrika, Āfrikā, afrika, and Áfrika
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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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continents: kontinenteedit

Albanian

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Proper noun

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Afrika

  1. definite nominative singular of Afrikë

Czech

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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 Afrika ― North 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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Declension of Afrika (sg-only hard feminine)
singular
nominative Afrika
genitive Afriky
dative Africe
accusative Afriku
vocative Afriko
locative Africe
instrumental Afrikou

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continents: světadílyedit

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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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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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continents: Erdteile, Kontinenteedit

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]
  • Audio:(file)
  • 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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Compound words

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continents: kontinensek, földrészekedit

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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continents: kontinentiedit

Indonesian

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Dutch Afrika.

Pronunciation

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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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continents: benua-benuaedit

Further reading

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Kashubian

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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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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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continents: žemýnaiedit

Lower Sorbian

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Latin Āfrica.

Pronunciation

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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)

Declension

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Declension of Afrika
singular (uncountable)
Nominative Afrika
Genitive Afriki
Dative Africe
Accusative Afriku
Instrumental Afriku
Locative Africe

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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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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Afrika (Jawi spelling افريکا)

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

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continents: benua-benuaedit

Further reading

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Maltese

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Italian Africa.

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Proper noun

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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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continents: kontinentiedit

Norwegian Bokmål

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Afrika

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Afrika

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

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Norwegian Nynorsk

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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)

Derived terms

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continents: verdsdelaredit

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

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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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Declension of Afrika
singular
nominative Afrika
genitive Afrike
dative Africi
accusative Afriku
vocative Afriko
locative Africi
instrumental Afrikom

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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.

Pronunciation

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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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Declension of Afrika
singulare tantum
nominative Afrika
genitive Afriky
dative Afrike
accusative Afriku
locative Afrike
instrumental Afrikou

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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Proper noun

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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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Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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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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continents: mabaraedit

Swedish

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Pronunciation

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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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continents: världsdelaredit
countries in Africa: Afrikas länder (appendix)edit

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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Afrika f

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

Declension

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Declension of Afrika (feminine velar stem)
singular dual plural
nominative Afrika Africe Afriki
genitive Afriki Afrikow Afrikow
dative Africe Afrikomaj Afrikam
accusative Afriku Africe Afriki
instrumental Afriku Afrikomaj Afrikami
locative Africe Afrikomaj Afrikach
vocative Afrika Africe Afriki

Derived terms

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adjectives
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proper nouns

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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”)
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