Hulle kry gelyke toegang.

Hulle means they in this sentence.

Here it is the subject:

• Hulle kry gelyke toegang. = They get/receive equal access.

A useful extra note: in everyday Afrikaans, hulle can also sometimes be used for them, but here it clearly means they because it comes before the verb and is doing the action.

Kry is a very common Afrikaans verb meaning get, receive, obtain, or sometimes come to have.

So:

• Hulle kry gelyke toegang literally means They get equal access
• In natural English, that may also be understood as They receive equal access or They have equal access, depending on context

Afrikaans often uses kry where English might use get or receive.

Because Afrikaans verbs usually do not change according to the subject the way English verbs sometimes do.

Compare:

• Ek kry = I get
• Jy kry = you get
• Hy/sy kry = he/she gets
• Hulle kry = they get

So kry stays the same. This is one reason Afrikaans verb grammar is often simpler than English verb grammar.

Gelyk means equal.

When an adjective comes before a noun in Afrikaans, it often takes an -e ending. That is why you get:

• gelyke toegang = equal access

But when the adjective comes after the noun, it is usually the basic form:

• Die toegang is gelyk. = The access is equal.

So:

• gelyk = base form
• gelyke = adjective form used before the noun here

Toegang means access, entry, or admission, depending on context.

In this sentence, it means access in a broad or abstract sense.

Examples:

• toegang tot onderwys = access to education
• toegang tot inligting = access to information
• toegang tot die gebou = access to the building

So gelyke toegang means equal access.

Because toegang here is being used in a general, abstract sense, much like English access.

English also often says:

• They have equal access rather than
• They have an equal access

Afrikaans does the same kind of thing here:

• Hulle kry gelyke toegang.

If you were talking about a specific kind of access in a more concrete way, the sentence structure might change, but in this general sense, no article is needed.

The word order is the normal main-clause Afrikaans order:

Subject + Verb + Object

• Hulle = subject
• kry = verb
• gelyke toegang = object

So:

• Hulle kry gelyke toegang.

This is very similar to standard English word order:

• They get equal access.

You usually use toegang tot ... for access to ...

Examples:

• Hulle kry gelyke toegang tot onderwys. = They get equal access to education.
• Hulle kry gelyke toegang tot gesondheidsorg. = They get equal access to healthcare.
• Hulle kry gelyke toegang tot die internet. = They get equal access to the internet.

So if you want to expand the sentence, tot is the key word to remember.

A rough English-friendly guide is:

• Hulle ≈ HULL-uh
• kry ≈ something like kray / krei
• gelyke ≈ khuh-LAY-kuh or ghuh-LAY-kuh depending on accent
• toegang ≈ TOO-khang or TOO-gang with the Afrikaans g sound

A few pronunciation notes:

• The g in Afrikaans is usually a throat sound, not a soft English g
• y in kry is not pronounced like English ee; it is more like ay/ei
• Stress often falls roughly like this: HUL-le kry ge-LY-ke TOE-gang

Yes. Kry is a very flexible verb.

It can mean:

• get: Ek kry die boek. = I get the book.
• receive: Sy kry 'n brief. = She receives a letter.
• obtain: Ons kry toestemming. = We obtain permission.
• sometimes even become/get in expressions: Hy kry koud. = He gets cold.

So in Hulle kry gelyke toegang, the idea is that they receive/obtain equal access.