English to afrikaans meaning of

Die woordeboekbetekenis van die woord "verskuldig" is om dankbaarheid of geld aan iemand of iets te verskuldig. Dit beteken dat iemand verplig is om 'n skuld terug te betaal of dankbaarheid te toon vir 'n guns of vriendelikheid wat aan hulle bewys is. Dit kan ook verwys na 'n gevoel van dank verskuldig vir 'n goeie daad of vriendelikheid wat aan iemand gedoen is.

Sentence Examples

  1. I am indebted to Patricia Leslie, Michelle Flammell, James Synot, Jasmina Brankovich and Elizabeth Blackthorn for all of their kind words and suggestions.
  2. Until then, I am indebted to an understanding mother who is content to know I am well without badgering to know why I changed my plans.
  3. You have saved all humanity, and they will forever be indebted to you.
  4. John Knightley was she indebted for her first idea on the subject, for the first start of its possibility.
  5. This was Colonel Campbell, who had very highly regarded Fairfax, as an excellent officer and most deserving young man and farther, had been indebted to him for such attentions, during a severe camp-fever, as he believed had saved his life.
  6. Never before have I been indebted to a Valkyrie or any other being, and I do not like it.
  7. Even so, he was easy on the eyes, and I was indebted to him for saving the lady and her toddlers.
  8. Harrison Ainsworth, to whose politeness our agent is also indebted for much verbal information respecting the balloon itself, its construction, and other matters of interest.
  9. The history of human knowledge has so uninterruptedly shown that to collateral, or incidental, or accidental events we are indebted for the most numerous and most valuable discoveries, that it has at length become necessary, in any prospective view of improvement, to make not only large, but the largest allowances for inventions that shall arise by chance, and quite out of the range of ordinary expectation.
  10. Can I not, like Pasta, Malibran, Grisi, acquire for myself what you would never have given me, whatever might have been your fortune, a hundred or a hundred and fifty thousand livres per annum, for which I shall be indebted to no one but myself and which, instead of being given as you gave me those poor twelve thousand francs, with sour looks and reproaches for my prodigality, will be accompanied with acclamations, with bravos, and with flowers?