No. 758 in Afrikaans
daai
"Daai" means "that" in English.
In a sentence
Ek hou van daai boek wat jy lees.
I like that book you are reading.
In this sentence, 'daai' is used as a demonstrative adjective to specify or point out 'boek' (the book).
Het jy daai fliek al gesien?
Have you already seen that movie?
Here, 'daai' functions as a demonstrative adjective to refer to 'fliek' (the movie) of which the speaker assumes the listener is aware.
Die honde het gehoor gegee aan daai instruksies.
The dogs followed those instructions.
'Daai' is used in this context as a demonstrative pronoun referring to 'instruksies' (the instructions), indicating specific instructions previously mentioned or known to both speaker and listener.
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