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Questions & Answers about Ons redigeer die klanksnit.
Why is ons used here, and does it always mean we?
Yes, ons here means we.
A useful thing to know is that ons can also mean us, depending on the sentence:
- Ons redigeer die klanksnit. = We edit the audio clip.
- Hulle sien ons. = They see us.
So ons can be either a subject pronoun (we) or an object pronoun (us). You work out which one it is from the sentence structure.
Why is the verb redigeer not changed for ons? Shouldn’t it have a special we form?
In Afrikaans, verbs usually do not change according to the subject the way they do in English.
So you get:
- Ek redigeer = I edit
- Jy redigeer = you edit
- Ons redigeer = we edit
- Hulle redigeer = they edit
This is one of the nice simplifications in Afrikaans compared with English and many other languages. In this sentence, redigeer stays the same after ons.
What does redigeer mean exactly? Is it the normal word for edit?