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Questions & Answers about Het afscheid was een mijlpaal.
How do you say "to say goodbye" using the noun afscheid?
Dutch uses the fixed expression afscheid nemen van (literally: to take farewell of). For example, if you want to say "We said goodbye to each other," you would say We namen afscheid van elkaar.
Does mijlpaal work exactly like "milestone" in English?
Yes, perfectly. It is a literal translation combining mijl (mile) and paal (pole or post). Just as in English, it is heavily used in a figurative sense to mean a major turning point or significant achievement.
How could we expand this sentence to practice the temporal relative dat from this lesson?
You could say De dag dat we afscheid namen was een mijlpaal (The day we said goodbye was a milestone). In this case, dat is a temporal relative replacing waarop (on which), which makes the sentence flow much more naturally in Dutch.