Die komitee het 'n kworum.

to have

Breakdown of Die komitee het 'n kworum.

• 'n: a
• die komitee: committee
• die kworum: quorum

Questions & Answers about Die komitee het 'n kworum.

What does het mean here?

Here het means has.

In this sentence:

• Die komitee = the committee
• het = has
• 'n kworum = a quorum

So the structure is simply subject + verb + object.

A useful thing to remember is that Afrikaans verbs do not change much for different persons the way English verbs do. So you get:

• Ek het = I have
• Jy het = you have
• Hy/Sy het = he/she has
• Ons het = we have
• Hulle het = they have

So het stays the same.

Why is it 'n instead of a full word like English a or an?

'n is the Afrikaans indefinite article, meaning a or an.

A few important points about 'n:

• It is written with an apostrophe.
• It is always written as 'n, not as a capital 'N.
• It is usually pronounced very weakly, like the uh sound in about.

So:

• 'n boek = a book
• 'n kworum = a quorum

If it comes at the beginning of a sentence, it still stays lowercase:

• 'n Komitee vergader vandag.

That looks unusual to English speakers, but it is correct Afrikaans spelling.

Why does the sentence start with Die? Is that just the?