English to afrikaans meaning of

Die woordeboekbetekenis van die woord "prys" is:(werkwoord)Om iemand of iets te prys of goedkeuring uit te druk, dikwels formeel of amptelik. Voorbeeldsin: Die bestuurder het die werknemer geprys vir hul uitsonderlike prestasie.Om iemand of iets aan 'n ander se sorg of bewaring toe te vertrou. Voorbeeldsin: Die ma het haar kind geprys vir die sorg van die oppasser.Om iemand of iets as waardig of verdienstelik aan te beveel of te onderskryf. Voorbeeldsin: Die onderwyser het die student se opstel geprys vir sy oorspronklikheid en kreatiwiteit.Om dankbaarheid of waardering vir iemand se optrede of gedrag uit te spreek. Voorbeeldsin: Die burgemeester het die vrywilligers geprys vir hul pogings om die park skoon te maak.(selfstandige naamwoord)'n Uitdrukking van lof of goedkeuring. Voorbeeldsin: Die HUB het 'n lofbrief aan die werknemer gestuur vir hul uitstaande bydrae tot die maatskappy.'n Amptelike aanbeveling of endossement. Voorbeeldsin: Die senator het 'n lof van die President ontvang vir hul humanitêre pogings.Let wel: Die betekenis van 'n woord kan verskil na gelang van die konteks waarin dit gebruik word, en dit is altyd die beste om 'n omvattende woordeboek te raadpleeg vir die mees akkurate definisie.

Sentence Examples

  1. Commend me to your daughter Sanchica, and tell her from me to hold herself in readiness, for I mean to make a high match for her when she least expects it.
  2. I answered in a few words that I would do so, and that she must remember to commend us to Lela Marien with all the prayers the captive had taught her.
  3. If your son write satires reflecting on the honour of others, chide and correct him, and tear them up but if he compose discourses in which he rebukes vice in general, in the style of Horace, and with elegance like his, commend him for it is legitimate for a poet to write against envy and lash the envious in his verse, and the other vices too, provided he does not single out individuals there are, however, poets who, for the sake of saying something spiteful, would run the risk of being banished to the coast of Pontus.
  4. The village is small and run down and has little to commend it save for the view of the mountains and the rugged coastline to the south.
  5. Then the love-thoughts of the heart clothed themselves simply and naturally as the heart conceived them, nor sought to commend themselves by forced and rambling verbiage.
  6. To that Providence, my sons, I hereby commend you, and I counsel you by way of caution to forbear from crossing the moor in those dark hours when the powers of evil are exalted.
  7. I commend myself to your friendship, monsieur le marechal, and beg you to believe in mine.