The Verklarende Afrikaanse Woordeboek is the most comprehensive Afrikaans descriptive desk dictionary currently available in South Africa. The new edition contains more than a 1000 new entries and more than 3000 common abbreviations. The revised dictionary reflects the most recent Afrikaans variants and spelling rules, as contained in the Afrikaanse Woordelys en Spelreëls. Parts of speech, plural forms, derivatives, degrees of comparison and the inflected forms of verbs are clearly indicated.