Ons meet die koffiegronde met die maatlepel.

This is a classic false friend for English speakers.

In Afrikaans, meet means measure, not meet in the English sense of encounter or get together with.

• Ons meet die koffiegronde ... = We measure the coffee grounds ...

If you wanted meet in the English sense, Afrikaans would usually use a different verb such as ontmoet.

• Ek ontmoet my vriend. = I meet my friend.

So in this sentence, meet is definitely about measuring.

Ons means we.

So the subject of the sentence is:

• Ons = we

Afrikaans uses ons for the first-person plural subject, just as English uses we.

Die is the Afrikaans definite article, meaning the.

Afrikaans does not change the for gender or number the way some other languages do. It simply uses die for:

• singular nouns
• plural nouns
• masculine, feminine, and neuter nouns

So:

• die koffiegronde = the coffee grounds
• die maatlepel = the measuring spoon

That is completely normal Afrikaans usage.

Koffiegronde means coffee grounds.

It is a compound made from:

• koffie = coffee
• gronde = grounds

So die koffiegronde refers to the ground coffee you are measuring, not a place or location.

It is treated as a plural form in structure, because gronde is plural.

That said, like English coffee grounds, it often refers to a substance or collection rather than a countable set of individual items. So learners can think of it as:

• grammatically plural in form
• semantically similar to English coffee grounds

You do not need to overthink it in this sentence; just understand it as the normal way to say coffee grounds.

Maatlepel means measuring spoon.

It is a compound noun:

• maat = measure
• lepel = spoon

So literally it is something like measure-spoon, which English expresses as measuring spoon.

Compound nouns are very common in Afrikaans, just as in Dutch and German.

Here, met means with in the sense of using something as an instrument.

So:

• met die maatlepel = with the measuring spoon

It tells you what tool is being used to do the measuring.

That is the normal word order here.

The basic structure is:

• Ons = subject
• meet = verb
• die koffiegronde = direct object
• met die maatlepel = prepositional phrase showing the instrument

So the sentence follows a very natural pattern:

Subject + verb + object + prepositional phrase

Afrikaans often places this kind of with ... phrase after the object, just as English often does:

• We measure the coffee grounds with the measuring spoon.

Afrikaans verbs are much simpler than English verbs in this respect.

The present-tense verb usually stays the same regardless of the subject:

• Ek meet = I measure
• Jy meet = you measure
• Ons meet = we measure
• Hulle meet = they measure

So meet does not change form for different persons.

Yes, in many contexts Afrikaans speakers might use afmeet to mean measure out.

For example:

• Ons meet die koffiegronde met die maatlepel.
• Ons meet die koffiegronde met die maatlepel af.

The version with af can sound more like measure out, especially when portioning ingredients. But the sentence you were given with meet is still perfectly understandable and correct.

A close word-for-word breakdown is:

• Ons = we
• meet = measure
• die koffiegronde = the coffee grounds
• met die maatlepel = with the measuring spoon

So the structure is almost parallel to English:

We measure the coffee grounds with the measuring spoon.

That makes this sentence fairly beginner-friendly once you know that meet is a false friend.