Die droogkrimp verander die wanddikte.

The drying shrinkage changes the wall thickness.

Breakdown of Die droogkrimp verander die wanddikte.

• verander: to change
• die wanddikte: wall thickness
• die droogkrimp: drying shrinkage

Questions & Answers about Die droogkrimp verander die wanddikte.

Why does die appear twice in the sentence?

Because die is the Afrikaans definite article meaning the. It is used before both the subject noun and the object noun:

• die droogkrimp = the drying shrinkage
• die wanddikte = the wall thickness

Unlike English, Afrikaans uses the same article die for:

• singular nouns
• plural nouns
• all genders

So there is no change like the/he/she/it or de/het as in Dutch.

Is droogkrimp a noun or a verb here?

Here it is a noun, because it comes after the article die:

• die droogkrimp = the drying shrinkage

If it were being used as a verb, it would not normally have die in front of it in this way.

This is a common pattern in technical or scientific Afrikaans: a process can be named with a noun like droogkrimp.

What does verander do in this sentence?