Die kondensasiewater verdwyn.

Here die is the definite article the.

A few useful things to know about die in Afrikaans:

• It is used for all genders, because Afrikaans does not have grammatical gender like German.
• It can be used with singular or plural nouns.
• In this sentence, it points to a specific thing: the condensation water.

So Die kondensasiewater means the condensation water.

No. In Afrikaans, die is usually pronounced roughly like dee.

So the beginning of the sentence sounds like:

dee kon-den-SA-sie-water ...

That is a very common beginner trap, because the spelling looks familiar to English speakers.

Because Afrikaans usually writes compound nouns as a single word.

So:

• kondensasie = condensation
• water = water
• kondensasiewater = condensation water

This is very normal in Afrikaans. English often uses separate words where Afrikaans prefers one combined noun.

You will see this a lot in Afrikaans, for example:

• skoolbus = school bus
• huisdeur = house door / front door
• reënwater = rainwater

It is singular here.

Even though water is usually an uncountable substance noun, the whole noun phrase is treated as a single thing, so the sentence uses one subject:

• Die kondensasiewater verdwyn. = The condensation water disappears.

Also remember that die does not tell you by itself whether something is singular or plural, because die can be both. You usually work it out from context.

Verdwyn means disappear or vanish.

In Afrikaans, present-tense verbs usually do not change depending on the subject. That is why you get verdwyn instead of something like English disappears.

Compare:

• Ek verdwyn = I disappear
• Jy verdwyn = you disappear
• Hy verdwyn = he disappears
• Die kondensasiewater verdwyn = the condensation water disappears

So Afrikaans is simpler than English here: the verb form stays the same.

No. This is the normal word order for a simple main clause:

Subject + verb

So:

• Die kondensasiewater = subject
• verdwyn = verb

That makes the sentence very straightforward.

A useful extra point: if something else comes first in Afrikaans, the verb usually still stays in the second position:

• Vandag verdwyn die kondensasiewater. = Today the condensation water disappears.

No. Afrikaans does not capitalize all nouns.

So kondensasiewater stays lowercase unless it is at the beginning of a sentence.

Compare:

• Die kondensasiewater verdwyn.
• Kondensasiewater verdwyn vinnig.

This is different from German, where all nouns would be capitalized.

No. Verdwyn is normally an intransitive verb, which means it does not need a direct object.

In this sentence, the subject is the thing that disappears:

• Die kondensasiewater disappears.

You do not need to add an object after verdwyn.

That is similar to English disappear:

• You say The water disappears
• Not The water disappears something

You can understand it word for word, but the most natural English wording may depend on context.

A very literal breakdown is:

• Die = the
• kondensasiewater = condensation water
• verdwyn = disappears

But in more natural English, you might sometimes say:

• The condensation disappears
• The condensed water disappears
• The moisture disappears

So the Afrikaans sentence is simple and natural, even if English may choose slightly different wording depending on the situation.