Die eregas het die blinddoek.

The guest of honour has the blindfold.

Breakdown of Die eregas het die blinddoek.

• hê: to have
• die blinddoek: blindfold
• die eregas: guest of honour

Questions & Answers about Die eregas het die blinddoek.

Why is die used twice in this sentence?

Because die is the Afrikaans definite article, meaning the.

So in Die eregas het die blinddoek:

• die eregas = the guest of honor
• die blinddoek = the blindfold

Unlike English, Afrikaans uses die for:

• singular nouns
• plural nouns
• all genders

So there is just one common definite article: die.

What does eregas mean, and why is it one word?

Eregas means guest of honor.

It is a compound noun:

• ere = honor
• gas = guest

Afrikaans very often writes compound nouns as a single word, much more consistently than English does. So where English has guest of honor, Afrikaans uses the single word eregas.

What does het mean here?