| A B C | Hoofletters (capital letters) | The beginning of a sentence and a name. |
| . | Punt (full stop) | At the end of a sentence (statement); Sometimes being used with abbreviations. |
| , | Komma (comma) | Naming several this, in between 2 verbs and before the conjunction ‘maar’ and ‘want’. |
| ( ) | Hakies (brackets) | Giving more information. |
| ? | Vraagteken (question mark) | At the end of a question. |
| ! | Uitroepteken (exlamation mark) | at the end of calling out something and giving a command. |
| ; | Kommapunt (semi-colon) | Naming several things regarding a topic by repeating the same type of sentence. |
| : | Dubblepunt (colon) | Naming things without repeating the same type of sentence, explanation follows and direct speech follows. |
| − | Aandagstreep (dash) | Giving more information ( used in the place of brackets). |
| * | Asterisk (asterisk) | Explanation follows later. |
| … | Stippels/ ellips (ellipsis) | To be continued |
| “ “ | Aanhalingstekens (inverted commas/ quotation marks) | Direct speech and quotation |
| ¨ | Deelteken | Help to pronounce some words, don’t add them anywhere. |
| ^ | Kappie | Help to pronounce some words. |
| ‘ | Afkappingsteken (apostrophe) | Plural and diminutives of words that end in -i, -o and -u; plural for ending on emphasis -a; plural for abbreviations; plurals and diminutives for numbers; show that a sound is been left out |
| – | Koppelteken | Too many consonants; repetition of vowels; geographical names combined with directions; words with numbers or abbreviations |
