Die kledingstuk met voering gaan in die skenkingsboks.

Kledingstuk means garment, item of clothing, or piece of clothing.

It is a correct and useful word, but it sounds a bit more neutral or formal than everyday klere (clothes). In this sentence, kledingstuk is singular, so it refers to one specific garment.

Because die is the Afrikaans definite article meaning the.

Afrikaans uses die for:

• singular nouns
• plural nouns
• all genders

So:

• die kledingstuk = the garment
• die skenkingsboks = the donation box

Unlike English, Afrikaans does not change the article based on gender.

Met means with, and voering means lining.

So met voering means with lining or lined.

In the sentence, this phrase describes the garment:

• die kledingstuk met voering = the garment with lining

It tells you which garment is being talked about.

In this sentence, voering is being used in a general descriptive way, like a feature of the garment, so met voering sounds natural.

Afrikaans often allows this kind of article-less phrase after a preposition when the noun is understood generally:

• met voering = with lining

If you wanted to emphasize a single lining more explicitly, met 'n voering could also be possible, but met voering is a natural descriptive phrasing.

Not necessarily.

Gaan literally means go/goes, but in sentences like this it often means:

• goes into
• should go into
• belongs in

So the idea is not always physical movement happening right now. It can also be an instruction or sorting statement:

• This garment goes in the donation box
• This garment belongs in the donation box

Because in is used when something ends up inside something.

So:

• in die skenkingsboks = in / into the donation box

Afrikaans often uses in where English might say either in or into, depending on context.

By contrast, na usually means to or toward a place:

• Ek gaan na die winkel = I am going to the shop

But here the meaning is specifically about being placed inside the box, so in is the natural choice.

Yes. Afrikaans, like Dutch and German, very often writes compound nouns as one word.

So:

• skenking = donation
• boks = box
• skenkingsboks = donation box

The -s- in the middle is a linking sound that often appears in compounds.

The word order is straightforward:

Die kledingstuk met voering | gaan | in die skenkingsboks
subject | verb | prepositional phrase

So:

• Die kledingstuk met voering = the full subject
• gaan = the verb
• in die skenkingsboks = where it goes

The phrase met voering is attached to kledingstuk, not to gaan.

It describes the garment.

The structure is:

• die kledingstuk met voering = the garment with lining

So met voering is part of the noun phrase and tells you more about kledingstuk.

It does not mean the donation box has lining.

Not exactly, because the meaning would change.

• kledingstuk = one garment / one item of clothing
• klere = clothes in a general or plural sense

So if you say Die klere..., you are no longer talking about one single garment in the same way.

If the original meaning is about one item, kledingstuk is the better match.

A natural plural version would be:

Die kledingstukke met voering gaan in die skenkingsboks.

That means The garments with lining go in the donation box.

Here:

• kledingstuk → kledingstukke
• gaan stays gaan
• die stays die

Afrikaans articles and verbs usually change less than English learners expect.