Adjective: bakgat
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
Perifrastic
| Comparative | more bakgat |
| Superlative | most bakgat |
Sample Sentences
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"Your car was pinking and I fixed it." "Bakgat".
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A lekker dictionary containing all the bakgat South African words has hit the bookstores. The collection of about 1,500 local words is a bonsella published in the latest edition of the Concise Oxford Dictionary, "the ultimate authority on South African English". [2002 September 9, Peroshni Govender, “Hau, my china, it's bakgat”, in Independent Online, archived from the original on 29 Mar 2018:]
Adjectives inflected like bakgat
priest-ridden,
unreposed,
evadible,
dissentious,
dissentient,
unforesighted,
egocentrical,
unephemeral,
unennobling,
mensuralist,
flocculent,
unseductive,
whoopsy,
whooshy,
surrogate,
Nicodian,
unrepaired,
prismatoidal,
renorenal,
unseducible, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)
Etymology
From Afrikaans bak (“to bake, roast”) + gat (“bum”).