It's very Capetonian. It was quite popular in the early 90's amongst the teens but it became a lame word and dissapeared for a while. It has, however, made a come back.
Could u imagine immigrating to another country as a south African and saying voetsek in public and another South African reacts. It'd be the most joy we've ever had hearing that word in our life.
I wish they added all the slangs the majority of South Africans are popular with, or at least should have titled the video with "Aussies Guess White South African Slang".
This was hilarious. As an aussie that moved to south africa learning this slang was so dificult. Nowadays i pretty much speak 50% afrikaans throughout the day. Especially ‘sek. Too often tbh.
I wish they added all the slangs the majority of South Africans are popular with, or at least should have titled the video with "Aussies Guess White South African Slang".
My guy, Afrikaans words are used as slang by the other languages in South Africa Even in its neighbouring countries such asLesotho and Eswatini Phola😹😹😹
I wish they added all the slangs the majority of South Africans are popular with, or at least should have titled the video with "Aussies Guess White South African Slang".
It’s only Afrikaans slang or slang from only one province. South Africa has more than 11 official languages and nine provinces. I think you should have used slang that all South Africans use. Most of these words weren’t even slang.
I wish they added all the slangs the majority of South Africans are popular with, or at least should have titled the video with "Aussies Guess White South African Slang".
Also many people think the city of Johannesburg burg is pronounced like yo-hanis-burg mean while it is pronounced like how you see it like jo- hanis-burg
I wish they added all the slangs the majority of South Africans are popular with, or at least should have titled the video with "Aussies Guess White South African Slang".
Howzit? Slang for "How is it?" , meaning how is life. First recorded in the late 70s and 80s. In Afrikaans pop culture its referred to as "Hoesit". Voetsek comes from Dutch "Voort se ek". which means "Move forward I say!" but referring to hasting cattle, horses or a donkey pulling a cart.
I wish they added all the slangs the majority of South Africans are popular with, or at least should have titled the video with "Aussies Guess White South African Slang".
This is Afrikaans language spoken mostly by afrikaaners which are minority i ln SA ... I am sure south africans don't know these words.... Except howzit, voetsek and sharp sharp
I guess different races have different experiences of slang, because I honestly wouldn't say this is all 'South African slang' . This is all just mostly Afrikaaner slang actually, a very small minority. I've never even heard of kif
Kif has been around for many years, more than 30 years at least. At the beginning it was mostly used by English speaking youths, especially around the Durban area. Afrikaans speaking young people are also using it. Cool! Or shall I say Kif!
"Joburg" (Johannesburg) slang, Afrikaans or English is not the same as other places in the country. People there sound strange to other South Africans. They usually just use English and throw slang in from wherever. People from the Western Cape (a province in South Africa #bestprovince) thinks they are very "kommen" (which means trashy or is sometimes used to describe a low-class white person). We are not the same as "Joburg" people. ;)
Okay let's just address this really quick. most of those words are Afrikaans it's not South African slang. More of Afrikaans slang. Pls afrikaaners, pls don't think if something is Afrikaans slang it's South African slang there's a big difference.
even if you ask a south african, 90% unless they are Afrikaaner, they won't know what it means, myself included... Afrikaaner slangs instead of South African slangs...
Voetsek sounds like "foot-sack", and it's very old. It just means "go away", though (with the implication, "leave me alone"). OK, seeing as it means go away right now or I'll klap you, I suppose it also means fokkof. (But generally it's politer. If you want to say fokkof, then you generally just say fokkof.) Kif has been around a long time, too, (but not as long as voetsek). Back in the day, it was more common to say something was "gif" (using the "g" that only the Germans, Dutch, and Scots can pronounce - a bit like the actual "ch" in Bach). Literally "poison". And in English, people who liked to gooi heavy slang (or lank slang) would actually say "poison" for things that today are just "kif". Ay like they'd park off there, chooning, ay like poison my bru. (Could be that the positive attribute of "poison" was meant to be something like Durban Poison?). Anyway these days you don't check lank ouens chooning "gif" ekse, or "poison, my bru". I suppose it's because "gif" became "kif". (And in French a poonda might "kif some mec" - which means she smaaks some oke, like she chooned there in this video, when she was sussing out "kif" and scheming what it might mean. The stukkie schemed quite sharp there, ekse. Probably knows some French.) Ja, and shap-shap/ sharp-sharp is "sharp" (which is maybe just another way of saying kiff?) being fed into the Xhosa slang rules? (Where you double everything up - like Bafana Bafana - or us Amakrokokroko - or a gandaganda). Ay, but you gotta be a bit of a fundi to make out what the okes are chooning sometimes. Anyway, I better waai (or maybe just jeet East) before some oke starts screaming TL;DR at me. Ag man! Go join the blerrie EKonomick Freedoom Farters. Voetskek! Jou ma se ... I suppose all that kind of naai would've got them banned from UA-cam, hey? Hey? Just like skollies and tsotsis. Jou ma se Porsche man! Now it's all getting so deurmekaar soos kots in 'n tumbledrier. Probably the most poetic swearword of them all is "naai" if you stop to think about it for a bit. Just think how the needle moves in 'n naaimasjien (and now you can't unsee it, as they say). Very poetic, whoever crafted that word anew upon their smithy.
OK, and "Jislaaik" is like "Jeepers", and other such "Jesus words", I think. Pronounced: "Yis-like", said quick. It's a sharp exclamation used wherever other blasphemers use words like ... Crikey?
'Tsek jy (jay - meaning "you")!, kind like a comical way of telling someone to piss off... or Jy ... Voet. Sssek! When you're really annoyed at someone.
The scary thing about going over seas is the dogs don't understand voetsek
Facts lol
Aweh
I died lol
🤣 ja nee
You know a dog has african blood when it understands voetsek
I'm South African and I always thought it was 'shap shap' and not' sharp sharp'
i thought the same thing
It is shap
Same here
Lekker man lekker
Snap shap
As a South African, I've Never heard of 'Kif'...
I was waiting for different words like 'Hhayibo!'
Kif is very white, joburgy/Durbany
I too would've appreciated less Afrikaans and more real slang
I also have never heard of that word and I'm also Afrikaans 😂😂
I didn't know what kif means until my mom said she used that word in high school when she was a kid
It's very popular among English speakers on the east coast
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Who else never heard of "kif"
I. Never have I heard of "kif" or anything remotely close. Maybe it's regional but I doubt it.
Dawgg
I definitely have, but spelt kiff.
It's very Capetonian. It was quite popular in the early 90's amongst the teens but it became a lame word and dissapeared for a while. It has, however, made a come back.
Have you guys not heard of the band the kiffness??
Half of the words are misused and the other half are just Afrikaans words, not really slang.
Presies ek stem saam
People do use mooi as slang nowadays
It must be colloquial surely. In my 39 years I have hardly ever used these words out of their language context or as "slang".
Mooi is just a normal basic word.
It's like saying the beautiful is slang for beautiful.
Ja dit is nie sleng nie
You're not south African until you've tasted melktert, Springbokkie, Biltong, pepermint crisp tart and Malva Poeding.
Waakin25 Waakin I agree 😌
Waakin25 Waakin melktert Hits different boettie
Nou praat jy man
Privilege
*white south african
As a south African i find this halarious
Me too
Same 😂
true this is soooooooooooo true
I got so excited when I saw "voetsek" 😅😅
Could u imagine immigrating to another country as a south African and saying voetsek in public and another South African reacts. It'd be the most joy we've ever had hearing that word in our life.
"so many different languages in our slang" y'all just spoke Afrikaans wtf ?
Hhayibo what kak is this man. eiiiyyy get out man. Is usually what I said when I was pissed
To the outside world, everything cool about SA is white.
@@joe_lubinda that's so ... Ew
@@lesedimolefe9390 ikr cause black South African culture and music rocks. Downloading Kwesta, Lady Zamar, Sun El Musician and Simmy's songs rn.
I wish they added all the slangs the majority of South Africans are popular with, or at least should have titled the video with "Aussies Guess White South African Slang".
The best was when he said "I like voetsek it's like saying f*ck off nicely" 😂
Tsek on the other hand?
This was hilarious. As an aussie that moved to south africa learning this slang was so dificult. Nowadays i pretty much speak 50% afrikaans throughout the day. Especially ‘sek. Too often tbh.
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@@Nagam.Porsche facts
80% of this video is faulty. Some of the words used are not slang at all. The correct definition of the word afterwards is also very vague.
Surprisingly, we have alot of cultures here, that use the words slightly differently
I wish they added all the slangs the majority of South Africans are popular with, or at least should have titled the video with "Aussies Guess White South African Slang".
Afrikaans a language not an accent or slang....misleading the whole world...
do our accent not language
My guy, Afrikaans words are used as slang by the other languages in South Africa
Even in its neighbouring countries such asLesotho and Eswatini Phola😹😹😹
ABITHEUS_FUEGO ja I get that because my mom is from Zimbabwe and she always says we are going to have a braai and stuff
ABITHEUS_FUEGO are you from South Africa
my guy every language has an accent and sa ppl use afr words as slang gosh man stop being so sensitive 😩😩
Lmfao only South Africans can understand
-xo xo- to be fair, most are Afrikaans and not even slang lol
afrikaans*
@@BabyPink3 they just didnt mention the other slang other than afrikaans
Dutchies too mate.
Bruh, lol
For sure South African slang is probabaly the best because mostly all of them are from different languages which adds a lot of culture
mara why isnt there any mzansi slang mxm
Because they're white. So white people don't usually know any kasi slang.
@@LeratoM98 I'm white and I use that slang
Mara mean "but"
Or Sho
Jesu
They really could've used more languages there are 11 official ones and they just used Afrikaans
South African slang not Johannesburg slang. That's a city
yah but also, some things differ by city hey
I expected to hear the good ol "Awe" xD Theres always next time
Awe awe
I wish they added all the slangs the majority of South Africans are popular with, or at least should have titled the video with "Aussies Guess White South African Slang".
0:10 my man just said "maybe it's a hunting thing" 😅 treading a fine line there, mate.
It’s only Afrikaans slang or slang from only one province. South Africa has more than 11 official languages and nine provinces. I think you should have used slang that all South Africans use. Most of these words weren’t even slang.
It’s just 11
RandomGoronwhohasaphoneandinternetaccess Goro oops my bad🤗
Xhosa Gurl In Japan it’s okay, everyone makes mistakes 😉
Tsek
Okay it has only 11 official languages.
These words are not slang, they are mostly just normal words that south Africas abuse the meaning of and the rest are Afrikaans
True
Esh my bru
I wish they added all the slangs the majority of South Africans are popular with, or at least should have titled the video with "Aussies Guess White South African Slang".
Mooi and lekker are not slang words, and i've never in my life heard of 'kif'
Kif is common... although maybe more a Durban thing
Alexander Van de walt faxx
Yeah I’m from Durban and I hear it a lot
This is mostly Afrikaans slang we have different languages in South Africa with different slang
I can already tell Afrikaans is going to be heavy here
It's not sharp sharp it's "shap shap"
Yohhhhhhhhh thank you for that sentence
Who's the South African guy? He's so hot.
Also many people think the city of Johannesburg burg is pronounced like yo-hanis-burg mean while it is pronounced like how you see it like jo-
hanis-burg
Nee bra dis jozi
well it used to be like the former but now...
I'm south African this is so flipen funny
This is why SA is great
Same
Jippy suid-afrika nog mense in suid-afrika, ons is awesome...
😜😜
Was great till 1994.
@@lunomalangabi
Don't feed trolls
Het jy ook gesig getrek met hulle uitsprake 😬
They should have said Afrikaans (slang?). 11 official languages and only one represented 😒
I wish they added all the slangs the majority of South Africans are popular with, or at least should have titled the video with "Aussies Guess White South African Slang".
The way they said “mooi” is absolutely sending me
Being Afrikaans and watching this is hilarious
Every time I meet a non-South African I’ll be craving something and will say lus, I always say “I’m lus for...” and my friends are like 🧐
Bro, I've lived in South Africa all my life and I didn't know most of these🤣🤣I guess I've been living under a rock...
You haven't been living under a rock, most of this is just Afrikaans slang, not South African slang
OMG I HAVE NEVER LAUNCHED SO HARD 😂🤣😂🤣
I'm South African and this is hilarious 😂
I like the South African term for traffic lights, robot. Just brilliant.
Would've loved to see "eish" in there😹
Yohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh instead of eish the put kif!? The fuck????
When the guy said "votesek" I was laughing so hard jislaaik the pronunciation
Afrikaans is such a beautiful, descriptive language. The more I learn, the more I love. Plus, Afrikaners are such lovely, warm people.
Haha I haven't heard those words in over 20 years! But still remember using every one of them!
This is basically only Afrikaans/English slang
It's not English slang, just Afrikaans slang
Litterly laughing at their thoughts of voetsek
I’m south african and i cringed SO much 😭😭😭
As a South African it is funny to here what they think it is
Voetsek can also be used while in act of violence... eg. slaaping chris rock on the face while saying voetsek
Thanks for the video, next time try Cape Town slang, that one is on another level. Njoy.
Howzit? Slang for "How is it?" , meaning how is life. First recorded in the late 70s and 80s. In Afrikaans pop culture its referred to as "Hoesit". Voetsek comes from Dutch "Voort se ek". which means "Move forward I say!" but referring to hasting cattle, horses or a donkey pulling a cart.
0:00 Why does the man on the right look like Jack Black?
A lot of these words are just Afrikaans words. There are so many slang words from South Africa that is not in this video, which is upsetting.
This made me laugh so much
the way they pronounced Mooi
I loved this so much 😂😂😂❤️
Its not even accurate shame
I wish they added all the slangs the majority of South Africans are popular with, or at least should have titled the video with "Aussies Guess White South African Slang".
It's the way they pronounced "voetsek" for me🤣🤣🤣
This is Afrikaans language spoken mostly by afrikaaners which are minority i ln SA ... I am sure south africans don't know these words.... Except howzit, voetsek and sharp sharp
Mostly white people use Howzit. Some of us use sho
That was so funny 🤣 😆 😂 😄
unfortunately the south africans dont even know either, probably lived in pretoria in some private english school
When they said voetsek to each other 😂😂😂
Those two dudes seem like a vibe
"voetsek" comes from "voort sê ek" (forward, I say) and literally just means "go away" and can be said rudely or jokingly.
We south africans like to overuse "like" in our sentence
Who told you that??!
They should of used coloured for this one
Aweee ja this mense know Niks about gham
And also afrikaans
Lol I'm a South African and never heard about "kif" until now I was confused actually
The girl with black top and glasses is Millie bobby brown after eating a lot in quarantine !!!
Lekker its a bad word it sound so dramatic oh my he was so funny i wanted to cry
y'all finna get lost if y'all think this is SOUTH AFRIKAAN SLANG...
Dit is n mooi dag
It is a nice day
Such a mooi day😂😂....i guess were teaching the people Namlish✊😂😂
I can't 😹😹😹 oh my lord 😭😭😭
I expected words like Hhayibo and Aweh but at least howzit was in there
Facts, this is mostly Afrikaans.
Why wasn’t awe in there
i knowww
lots of languages can be used as slang in different languages, for instance in Dutch we use Suriname words as slang
Most of these words are the the nicest South African slangs .
I guess different races have different experiences of slang, because I honestly wouldn't say this is all 'South African slang' . This is all just mostly Afrikaaner slang actually, a very small minority. I've never even heard of kif
Kif has been around for many years, more than 30 years at least. At the beginning it was mostly used by English speaking youths, especially around the Durban area. Afrikaans speaking young people are also using it. Cool! Or shall I say Kif!
That SA guy was hella cute... im going to go look for him now... also proud South African
Is for Afrikaans and to laugh your ass off while listening to them like this comment
👇
The boy and girl dit really good
I live in Africa and you guys dit really good
Afrikaans is *ONE* language in South Africa... Outta eleven OFFICIAL languages??? Meaning there's more... They had one job and done fucked up honestly
Mooy 😂😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣
I'm South African and I literally never heard of kif
That is not kif!
The leaker had me
Whahaha im dutch and every word is just dutch😂
A poes is not the same animal in South Africa!
@@gbone7581 like a poes is a female pig, in dutch its a female cat and the word for a vagina, so it's basically the same...
"Joburg" (Johannesburg) slang, Afrikaans or English is not the same as other places in the country. People there sound strange to other South Africans. They usually just use English and throw slang in from wherever. People from the Western Cape (a province in South Africa #bestprovince) thinks they are very "kommen" (which means trashy or is sometimes used to describe a low-class white person). We are not the same as "Joburg" people. ;)
Went to the same school as the one girl - Sarah 🤣🤣
*”Mooi” isn’t “slang.*
*its our home language.*
Okay let's just address this really quick. most of those words are Afrikaans it's not South African slang. More of Afrikaans slang. Pls afrikaaners, pls don't think if something is Afrikaans slang it's South African slang there's a big difference.
She said Voetsek to her friend 😂😂
Why is it biased to Afrikaans slang
If we stub our toe we dont say jislaaik ;)
Instead, we say ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
Most of the words were Afrikaans. Wowza
Are the last people who explain South African?
"Tjek jou nai"
Lekker means delicious (food wise) not pretty or good 😭😂
Lol Jack Black says " Vote Sex".
All south Africans watching this
Lol
even if you ask a south african, 90% unless they are Afrikaaner, they won't know what it means, myself included... Afrikaaner slangs instead of South African slangs...
"KIF that guy" LOL
Voetsek sounds like "foot-sack", and it's very old. It just means "go away", though (with the implication, "leave me alone"). OK, seeing as it means go away right now or I'll klap you, I suppose it also means fokkof. (But generally it's politer. If you want to say fokkof, then you generally just say fokkof.)
Kif has been around a long time, too, (but not as long as voetsek). Back in the day, it was more common to say something was "gif" (using the "g" that only the Germans, Dutch, and Scots can pronounce - a bit like the actual "ch" in Bach). Literally "poison". And in English, people who liked to gooi heavy slang (or lank slang) would actually say "poison" for things that today are just "kif". Ay like they'd park off there, chooning, ay like poison my bru. (Could be that the positive attribute of "poison" was meant to be something like Durban Poison?). Anyway these days you don't check lank ouens chooning "gif" ekse, or "poison, my bru". I suppose it's because "gif" became "kif".
(And in French a poonda might "kif some mec" - which means she smaaks some oke, like she chooned there in this video, when she was sussing out "kif" and scheming what it might mean. The stukkie schemed quite sharp there, ekse. Probably knows some French.)
Ja, and shap-shap/ sharp-sharp is "sharp" (which is maybe just another way of saying kiff?) being fed into the Xhosa slang rules? (Where you double everything up - like Bafana Bafana - or us Amakrokokroko - or a gandaganda).
Ay, but you gotta be a bit of a fundi to make out what the okes are chooning sometimes. Anyway, I better waai (or maybe just jeet East) before some oke starts screaming TL;DR at me.
Ag man! Go join the blerrie EKonomick Freedoom Farters. Voetskek! Jou ma se ... I suppose all that kind of naai would've got them banned from UA-cam, hey? Hey? Just like skollies and tsotsis. Jou ma se Porsche man! Now it's all getting so deurmekaar soos kots in 'n tumbledrier.
Probably the most poetic swearword of them all is "naai" if you stop to think about it for a bit. Just think how the needle moves in 'n naaimasjien (and now you can't unsee it, as they say). Very poetic, whoever crafted that word anew upon their smithy.
OK, and "Jislaaik" is like "Jeepers", and other such "Jesus words", I think.
Pronounced: "Yis-like", said quick. It's a sharp exclamation used wherever other blasphemers use words like ... Crikey?
Maybe its a hunting thing
'Tsek jy (jay - meaning "you")!, kind like a comical way of telling someone to piss off...
or
Jy ... Voet. Sssek! When you're really annoyed at someone.