Word
Ons hoor die omgewinggeraas in die toetsopname.
Meaning
We hear the ambient noise in the test recording.
Part of speech
sentence
Pronunciation
Course
Breakdown of Ons hoor die omgewinggeraas in die toetsopname.
ons
we
in
in
hoor
to hear
die omgewinggeraas
ambient noise
Questions & Answers about Ons hoor die omgewinggeraas in die toetsopname.
Why does the sentence start with Ons? Is that just we?
Yes. Ons is the Afrikaans subject pronoun for we.
A useful thing to know is that ons can also mean us, depending on its role in the sentence:
- Ons hoor... = We hear...
- Hulle hoor ons. = They hear us.
So in this sentence, Ons is the subject, so it means we.
Why is the verb hoor and not something different for we?
Afrikaans verbs usually do not change form for different persons the way English verbs sometimes do.
So you get:
- Ek hoor = I hear
- Jy hoor = you hear
- Hy hoor = he hears
- Ons hoor = we hear
Unlike English he hears, Afrikaans keeps the same basic verb form: hoor.
That makes Afrikaans verb conjugation much simpler than English in many cases.
Why is die used twice?