Ons argiveer die dokument.

Yes. In Afrikaans, ons can mean both we and us.

• Ons argiveer die dokument. = We archive the document.
• Hulle sien ons. = They see us.

Afrikaans does not change the form the way English does with we/us.

This is the normal basic Afrikaans word order for a main clause:

subject + verb + object

So:

• Ons = subject
• argiveer = verb
• die dokument = object

It works much like standard English in a simple statement:

• We archive the document.

Afrikaans verbs are much simpler than English verbs. In the present tense, the verb usually stays the same regardless of the subject.

So you get:

• Ek argiveer = I archive
• Jy argiveer = you archive
• Ons argiveer = we archive
• Hulle argiveer = they archive

Unlike English, Afrikaans does not normally add an -s for he/she/it in the present tense.

Here, die means the.

So:

• die dokument = the document

A useful thing to know is that Afrikaans uses die as the definite article for singular and plural nouns:

• die dokument = the document
• die dokumente = the documents

So there is no separate the for masculine, feminine, or neuter nouns.

No. Afrikaans does not use grammatical gender the way languages like German or Dutch do.

That means you do not need to learn different forms of the depending on whether a noun is masculine, feminine, or neuter. You just use die.

So die dokument is simply the document, with no gender to worry about.

Yes. Argiveer is a normal Afrikaans verb meaning to archive or to file/store in an archive. It is clearly related to the English word archive, although its spelling follows Afrikaans patterns.

This is common in Afrikaans: some words are recognizably similar to English, but spelled in an Afrikaans way.

A simple learner-friendly guide:

• argiveer: roughly ar-khi-VEER
• dokument: roughly do-ku-MENT

A few helpful notes:

• The g in Afrikaans is usually stronger and throatier than in English.
• The stress in argiveer is typically near the end.
• dokument sounds quite close to English document, but with Afrikaans vowel quality.

If you are a beginner, getting the rhythm right is more important than perfect accent at first.

Because argiveer here is a finite verb in a normal statement, not an infinitive.

In English:

• We archive the document.

Not:

• We to archive the document.

Afrikaans works the same way here. You only use an infinitive marker like te in certain constructions, not in a simple present-tense main clause.

A common way to form the past in Afrikaans is with het + ge- past participle.

So:

• Ons het die dokument geargiveer. = We archived the document.

Notice two things:

1. The auxiliary verb het comes second.
2. The past participle gearchiveer goes to the end.

This is a very common Afrikaans pattern.

You can use sal:

• Ons sal die dokument argiveer. = We will archive the document.

Again, notice the structure:

• Ons = subject
• sal = future auxiliary
• die dokument = object
• argiveer = main verb at the end

That word order is very typical when Afrikaans uses an auxiliary verb.

Yes, if you mean a document instead of the document, you use ’n:

• Ons argiveer ’n dokument. = We archive a document.
• Ons argiveer die dokument. = We archive the document.

So the difference is:

• ’n = a/an
• die = the

The plural is usually dokumente.

So:

• die dokument = the document
• die dokumente = the documents

And the full sentence in the plural would be:

• Ons argiveer die dokumente. = We archive the documents.

Sometimes, yes, depending on context. But in a sentence like Ons argiveer die dokument, the most natural reading is simply we archive the document.

If context makes it clear, ons can sometimes be used more broadly, but for a learner it is best to understand it first as the ordinary pronoun we/us.