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by Aeolun 2315 days ago
Reading South African as a Dutch person is always great. I understand most of the words, but it’s still clearly a completely different language/context.

Gatvol = hole is full

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When I learnt Dutch is came is a surprise that ‘opgewonde’ does not mean excited.

I told many an executive at KPN that I was opgewonde to work on their project. :)

Apparently Google Translate hasn't had the epiphany that you did yet. What does it mean? :)
Afrikaans: opgewonde → excited Dutch: opgewonde → aroused.

:)

More specifically, in this word gat would mean ass.