Because meet in Afrikaans is a different word from the English verb meet.
Here, meet means measures.
This is a good example of a false friend: a word that looks familiar to an English speaker but means something different.
Usually, no. Afrikaans verbs are much simpler than English verbs in this respect.
In the present tense, the verb generally stays the same with different subjects:
So in Die tydskyfie meet die tyd, the form meet does not change because the subject is third-person singular.
The sentence uses the normal subject–verb–object order:
So it works very much like English:
This makes the sentence relatively easy for English speakers.
Because Afrikaans does not normally mark nouns with special case endings the way some other languages do.
So:
The article die stays the same in both places.
Because Afrikaans, like Dutch and German, very often writes compound nouns as a single word.
So tydskyfie is a compound noun made from smaller parts, and Afrikaans normally joins those parts together into one written word.
This is extremely common in Afrikaans. English sometimes does this too, but Afrikaans does it much more consistently.
The ending -ie is very often a diminutive ending in Afrikaans.
That means it can suggest something small, little, or sometimes just a fixed everyday noun form.
In a word like tydskyfie, the final part skyfie contains that -ie ending. Depending on the exact meaning already given to you, it may originally have meant something like a small disk, small slice, or little chip.
So even if you learn tydskyfie as one vocabulary item, it is useful to notice that -ie is a very common Afrikaans ending.
Yes, sometimes. Afrikaans can use tyd without an article in some general statements, depending on meaning and style.
For example, a very general idea like Time flies could use just tyd.
But in die tyd, the speaker is referring to the time as something definite or understood in context. So the article is natural here.
They are related historically, but you should not pronounce them exactly the same way as in modern English.
A rough English-friendly approximation of tyd is something like tate with a different vowel quality, but the exact Afrikaans sound is not identical to any single English word.
The important thing for a beginner is: