Ons versier die wegkruipplek en steek die konfetti weg.

Usually, no. In Afrikaans, most verbs do not change for person or number in the present tense.

So you get:

• ek versier — I decorate
• jy versier — you decorate
• hy versier — he decorates
• ons versier — we decorate

This is simpler than English, where you have decorate but decorates for he/she/it.

The same applies to steek:

• ek steek
• ons steek
• hulle steek

So Ons versier ... is completely normal.

Die is the Afrikaans definite article, meaning the.

It is used before both nouns because both are definite:

• die wegkruipplek — the hiding place
• die konfetti — the confetti

A helpful thing for English speakers: Afrikaans uses die for:

• singular nouns
• plural nouns
• all genders

So unlike some other languages, you do not have to learn different forms like the masculine, the feminine, the plural, and so on. It is just die.

Because Afrikaans, like Dutch and German, very often writes compound nouns as a single word.

wegkruipplek is made up of parts:

• wegkruip — to hide away / hide oneself
• plek — place

So wegkruipplek literally means something like hide-away place or hiding place.

This is very normal in Afrikaans. English often writes these as two words or with a hyphen, but Afrikaans usually joins them into one word.

Literally, it is built from:

• weg — away
• kruip — crawl, creep, or hide oneself
• plek — place

So the literal idea is a place to crawl/hide away into.

In natural English, the best translation is usually hiding place.

Because wegsteek is a separable verb.

The full verb is:

• wegsteek — to hide away / to put away out of sight

But in a normal main clause, Afrikaans often splits this kind of verb:

• Ons steek die konfetti weg.

Here:

• steek is the finite verb
• weg goes to the end

This is a very common Afrikaans pattern with separable verbs.

Compare:

• Ek trek my jas aan. — I put my coat on.
• Sy tel die boek op. — She picks the book up.
• Ons steek die konfetti weg. — We hide the confetti away.

The dictionary form is wegsteek.

You often see it joined together when it is not being split by main-clause word order, for example:

• Ons wil die konfetti wegsteek. — We want to hide the confetti.
• Ek weet dat hulle die konfetti wegsteek. — I know that they are hiding the confetti.

So:

• main clause: steek ... weg
• infinitive / many other forms: wegsteek

Because the subject is the same in both parts of the sentence, Afrikaans can leave it out in the second part.

So this:

• Ons versier die wegkruipplek en steek die konfetti weg.

means the same basic thing as:

• Ons versier die wegkruipplek en ons steek die konfetti weg.

The second ons is understood.

When the repeated subject is omitted like this, the verb comes straight after en:

• en steek ...

This can look strange to an English speaker at first, but it is a normal Afrikaans structure.

Usually, konfetti works like a mass noun, much like English confetti.

So even though confetti is made of many little pieces, the word itself is normally treated as one substance or material:

• die konfetti — the confetti

If you want to emphasize the individual bits, you could say something like:

• stukkies konfetti — little pieces of confetti

So in this sentence, die konfetti is perfectly natural.

This is the simple present form in Afrikaans.

Afrikaans often uses the plain present tense where English might use either:

• we decorate
• we are decorating

So depending on context, Ons versier ... en steek ... weg can describe:

• a general action
• what is happening right now
• sometimes even a planned action

If you really want to stress that something is in progress, Afrikaans can use a structure like besig om te, but the simple present is very common and natural here.

Yes, sometimes. A common alternative is skuilplek, which also means hiding place.

But wegkruipplek is very transparent for a learner because you can see the parts:

• wegkruip — hide away
• plek — place

So it is a good example of how Afrikaans builds words out of smaller meaningful pieces.