Bewonder means admire.
It is related in form to Dutch/Germanic words connected with wonder or admiration, but in modern Afrikaans it specifically means to admire.
Examples:
So in this sentence, it expresses respect, appreciation, or awe.
Die is the Afrikaans definite article, meaning the.
So:
A very useful thing to remember is that Afrikaans uses die for all definite nouns:
Examples:
No, not in the way languages like German or Dutch do.
Afrikaans does not normally use grammatical gender in everyday grammar. That means you do not have to learn different forms of the for masculine, feminine, or neuter nouns.
So die skepping is simply the creation, with no gender marking to worry about.
A rough English-friendly guide would be:
A few helpful notes:
So a rough full pronunciation is: Ons buh-VON-der dee SKHEP-ping
Usually, no—not if you mean the creation in a definite sense.
In this sentence, die is natural because the noun is definite and specific:
Leaving out die would sound unusual here unless the sentence were restructured for a different meaning or style.