Absolute quantifiers are those that indicate "all" or "nothing" – either the whole of a group, collection, item and such, or none of it. The quantifier alle all are used for count and mass nouns, and elke each only for count nouns. Example (2a) illustrates the use of both of these. The noun in a NP with a quantifier can still be modified with an adjective as well, as can be seen in (2b). The quantifier alle is used in a number of fixed expressions, as shown in (2c-2g).

Different from in Dutch, the term heel whole is only used attributively (hele) as a quantifier, following an article and preceding the adjective and noun. When the referent is known or definite, the definite article is used (3a-3b), and when it is indefinite, the indefinite article is used (3c-3d). There are some compounds without the attributive morpheme, such as heeldag whole+day, used on its own as an adverb (3e) or with a definite article (3f).

To express "none" or negative absolute quantification, the indefinite pronoun niks nothing is used, apart from the negative article geen no (see The negative article). As a quantifier, niks can be used with count nouns (4a) and others (4b-4d), and is accompanied by a clause final negative particle nie. In (4c), niks is used in combination with the indefinite quantifier min little/few to indicate min of niks little or no.

There is a number of indefinite quantifiers in Afrikaans, and these are used to signify different nuances in meaning. A widely used pair is baie much/many (5a) and min little/few (5b), both of which can be used for count nouns (example 1b) and others (as in 5). The negative counterpart is nie veel not much/many (5c), accompanied by a clause final negative particle. While veel is typically only used in negative constructions, baie can be used both positively (5a) and negatively (5d). Occasionally, the quantifier menige many is used similarly to baie, but with a singular noun form (5e). The quantifier heelwat a lot is also used with both count and other nouns (5f).

Many indefinite quantifiers are almost exclusively used with count nouns, such as those in (6). As the other quantifiers, they precede adjectives (as in 6a, 6d, 6e, and 6h) if these are present and then nouns, and some of these are used with an article, such as klomp lots (6b) and paar couple (6h).