English to afrikaans meaning of

As 'n selfstandige naamwoord verwys die woord "minnaar" tipies na 'n persoon wat 'n sterk romantiese of seksuele aangetrokkenheid tot iemand anders het. Dit kan ook gebruik word om 'n persoon te beskryf wat iets geniet of 'n groot liefde daarvoor het, soos 'n liefhebber van musiek of 'n liefhebber van fyn kuns.

Sentence Examples

  1. The photo was exactly as before with Katherine and her young lover having at each other with wild abandon.
  2. Thomases or other doctors of the Church, observing as they do a decorum so ingenious that in one sentence they describe a distracted lover and in the next deliver a devout little sermon that it is a pleasure and a treat to hear and read.
  3. Not far from this there is a spot where there are a couple of dozen of tall beeches, and there is not one of them but has carved and written on its smooth bark the name of Marcela, and above some a crown carved on the same tree as though her lover would say more plainly that Marcela wore and deserved that of all human beauty.
  4. I had no doubts he would have been a skilled, generous lover.
  5. Who is that secret lover, I ask, of whom, at least, most of the relatives know nothing?
  6. We have attained the idea either of a fatal accident under the roof of Madame Deluc, or of a murder perpetrated, in the thicket at the Barrière du Roule, by a lover, or at least by an intimate and secret associate of the deceased.
  7. You could be my mother but you could also be my lover, if only I could make you see me that way.
  8. He knew her as either a daughter or a lover, perhaps.
  9. He, passionate, studious, austere, and having already a bride in his Art she a maiden of rarest beauty, and not more lovely than full of glee all light and smiles, and frolicsome as the young fawn loving and cherishing all things hating only the Art which was her rival dreading only the pallet and brushes and other untoward instruments which deprived her of the countenance of her lover.
  10. My lover continued to thrust, lengthening my bliss for a long minute before he, too, came.