English to afrikaans meaning of

Volgens die Oxford English Dictionary het die woord "fortuin" verskeie verskillende betekenisse:Kans of geluk, veral as 'n eksterne, onbeheerbare krag wat menslike aangeleenthede beïnvloed: "Hy het die fortuin om in 'n ryk familie gebore te word."'n Groot bedrag geld of bates: "Hy het sy fortuin in vaste eiendom gemaak."Bestemming of lot: "Dit was syne geluk om op die regte tyd op die regte plek te wees."'n Persoon se lot of toestand in die lewe: "Hy is in armoede gebore en het nooit die fortuin gehad om bo dit uit te styg nie."'n Voorspelling van toekomstige gebeure, veral een wat deur 'n fortuinverteller gemaak is: "Sy het 'n waarsêer geraadpleeg om uit te vind wat die toekoms vir haar inhou."Hierdie is net 'n paar van die moontlike definisies van die woord "fortuin." Die presiese betekenis van die woord hang af van die konteks waarin dit gebruik word.

Sentence Examples

  1. Instead of sailing directly from England to the United States, like a common villain, he had traversed three quarters of the globe, so as to gain the American continent more surely and there, after throwing the police off his track, he would quietly enjoy himself with the fortune stolen from the bank.
  2. Richard had little else he could use to change his fortune.
  3. You are a gifted writer and I know that fortune will shine upon you and your work.
  4. This noble lord, who was fastened to his chair, would have given his fortune to be able to make the tour of the world, if it took ten years and he bet five thousand pounds on Phileas Fogg.
  5. Fogg was perfectly tranquil and yet his whole fortune was at this moment at stake.
  6. The Muscatine, Iowa, native made a fortune in the 1920s broadcasting ads for his mail order products, claiming his natural remedies would cure what ailed people as opposed to what he considered the corrupt American Medical Association.
  7. For two years, he made another fortune until the feds caught him for mail fraud.
  8. But those who knew him best could not imagine how he had made his fortune, and Mr.
  9. He certainly did not bet to win, and had only staked the twenty thousand pounds, half of his fortune, because he foresaw that he might have to expend the other half to carry out this difficult, not to say unattainable, project.
  10. There would be time for the warrant to arrive, and fortune at last favoured the representative of the law.