Hierdie voorafverpakte voedsel is bederfbaar.

to be

Breakdown of Hierdie voorafverpakte voedsel is bederfbaar.

• hierdie: this
• bederfbaar: perishable
• die voorafverpakte voedsel: prepacked food

Questions & Answers about Hierdie voorafverpakte voedsel is bederfbaar.

Why is hierdie used here, and can it mean both this and these?

Yes. Hierdie is the Afrikaans demonstrative for both this and these. Afrikaans does not usually change the word the way English does.

In this sentence, voedsel is a mass noun, so the natural English meaning is this rather than these.

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Why is there no separate word for the before voedsel?

Because hierdie already fills that determiner slot.

In English, you also would not say this the food. In the same way, Afrikaans uses hierdie voedsel, not hierdie die voedsel.

So the structure is simply:

hierdie + voorafverpakte + voedsel

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Why is voorafverpakte written as one word?

Afrikaans often writes compounds as one word. Here voorafverpakte is built from the idea of packed beforehand / pre-packed.

So instead of writing something like vooraf verpakte in ordinary standard spelling, Afrikaans normally joins it into one compound adjective: voorafverpakte.

This is very common in Afrikaans, especially in formal or label-style language.

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