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Meaning of aarde | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B1
ˈɑːr.də

Definitions

  1. Earth
  2. Earth (planet)
  3. earth, ground, soil
    uncountable
  4. Equivalent to 'world': The specific world, or any of several specific constituent worlds, that humans live in, among any other (real or possible) worlds:

Equivalents

English earth world

Examples

“Die sterre van sij stelsel het miskien ook eenmaal gebrand en hulle eie lig uitgegee, maar vandag is hulle morsdood en koud, net soos ons ou aarde.”

The stars of its system have perhaps once burned and emitted their own light as well, but today they are stone-dead and cold, just like our old Earth.

“Koning Leeu belê 'n groot bosberaad, en hulle besluit eenparig om al die riviere op te dam sodat die water oor die aarde stoot en die ganse mensgeslag verdrink.”

King Lion convokes a large forest council, and they decide unanimously to dam all the rivers so that the water crashes over the Earth and the entire human race drowns.

“Veral in die dae van Mundt, die vooruitstrewende boer wat twee tuiniers uit Duitsland ingevoer het, is die vrugteboord oor 'n groot lap aarde uitgebrei.”

In the days of Mundt in particular, that forward-thinking farmer who brought two market-gardeners from Germany over, the orchard expanded over a large tract of ground.

CEFR level

B1
Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.

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