Die kansellasie het 'n groot impak.

The cancellation has a big impact.

Breakdown of Die kansellasie het 'n groot impak.

• groot: big
• hê: to have
• 'n: a
• die kansellasie: cancellation

Questions & Answers about Die kansellasie het 'n groot impak.

What does die mean here?

Die means the.

Afrikaans does not have grammatical gender in the way languages like German or Dutch do, so die does the job of the for masculine, feminine, neuter, and also plural nouns.

So die kansellasie simply means the cancellation.

Why is 'n written with an apostrophe?

'n is the Afrikaans indefinite article, meaning a or an.

It is written with an apostrophe because it is a reduced, unstressed form. A few useful things to remember:

• 'n groot impak = a big impact
• It is normally not stressed in speech.
• It is pronounced like a weak uh sound, not like the English letter N.
• Even at the beginning of a sentence, 'n itself stays lowercase:
  'n Groot impak is sigbaar.

Why is het translated as has here, not had?