Ons het die konsert onlangs gesien.

Afrikaans usually talks about completed past actions with the perfect tense: het + past participle.

So Ons het die konsert onlangs gesien is the normal everyday way to say both:

• We saw the concert recently
• We have seen the concert recently

Unlike English, Afrikaans does not usually use a separate simple past form for most verbs in ordinary speech.

They work together as a verb phrase:

• het = the auxiliary verb, like English have
• gesien = the past participle of sien (to see)

So literally, the structure is something like We have the concert recently seen, although in natural English you would translate it as We saw the concert recently or We have seen the concert recently.

That is normal Afrikaans word order.

In a main clause, the finite verb usually comes in the second position. Here, the finite verb is het:

• Ons = subject
• het = finite verb
• die konsert onlangs = the rest of the middle part
• gesien = past participle at the end

So Afrikaans often splits the verb phrase in this kind of sentence.

Yes. Gesien is the past participle of sien.

A lot of Afrikaans verbs form the past participle with ge-, so:

• sien → gesien
• maak → gemaak
• koop → gekoop

English speakers often notice that gesien is not just gesiened or something similar—it is a fixed participle form, and you simply need to learn it as part of the verb.

Die means the.

One helpful thing about Afrikaans is that the definite article does not change for gender. Afrikaans does not have the kind of masculine/feminine/neuter article system that some other languages do.

So die is used very broadly:

• die konsert = the concert
• die boek = the book
• die mense = the people

That makes articles much simpler than in many European languages.

Onlangs means recently.

Its position is fairly flexible, but some placements sound more natural than others. In this sentence, onlangs sits before the participle:

• Ons het die konsert onlangs gesien.

You can also say:

• Ons het onlangs die konsert gesien.

Both are natural. The difference is mostly one of rhythm or emphasis, not meaning.

It can mean either, depending on context.

Afrikaans het + past participle often covers both meanings that English separates into:

• simple past: We saw
• present perfect: We have seen

So when translating into English, you choose whichever sounds best in the situation.

Yes. Ons can mean both we and us.

In this sentence, it means we because it is the subject:

• Ons het ... gesien = We saw / We have seen ...

In other sentences, ons can also be the object, where English would use us.

That is much less natural.

In standard Afrikaans, onlangs usually comes before the final participle, not after it. So these are better:

• Ons het die konsert onlangs gesien.
• Ons het onlangs die konsert gesien.

Putting onlangs after gesien sounds awkward in a neutral sentence.

Afrikaans spelling is generally more phonetic than English spelling. Many borrowed words are adapted to fit Afrikaans spelling patterns.

So English concert becomes Afrikaans konsert:

• c often becomes k
• spelling is adjusted to better match pronunciation

This is very common in Afrikaans vocabulary.