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TROEF = to trump
VREET = to eat (used for animals), or to eat like an animal
How strange, I thought this morning, after completing my Afrikaans Wordle, that there really is no English word for VREET.
In Afrikaans, humans โeetโ (eat) and animals โvreetโ (eat).
Example:
Ek eet die appel. (I eat the apple).
Die vark vreet die appel. (The pig eats the apple).
If someone eats voraciously or sloppily, you might use the โanimalโ word for eat to ask the person:
โWat vreet jy?โ (What are you pigging out on?),
meaning the person eats like an animal/ a pig.