Ons het die waarborgbewys.

Ons is the Afrikaans form for we in this sentence because it is the subject:

• Ons het die waarborgbewys. = We have the warranty certificate/receipt.

A useful thing to know is that ons can also mean us in other contexts. Afrikaans does not change the form the way English does:

• Ons sien hom. = We see him.
• Hy sien ons. = He sees us.

So the job it is doing in the sentence tells you whether it means we or us.

Yes, het can do more than one job in Afrikaans.

In this sentence, het is the main verb and means have in the present tense:

• Ons het die waarborgbewys. = We have the warranty certificate.

But het is also used as the auxiliary in perfect constructions:

• Ons het die waarborgbewys gekry. = We got / have received the warranty certificate.

So the meaning depends on the structure:

• het + noun/object → often have
• het + past participle → auxiliary, like English have in have done

Here there is no participle, so het just means have.

Yes. In this sentence it is present tense.

Afrikaans does not use a separate present-tense form like English have/has versus past had. The verb het here simply means have.

So:

• Ons het die waarborgbewys. = We have the warranty certificate.

If you wanted past possession, you would usually need context or a different phrasing, because Afrikaans often handles tense differently from English.

Die here means the.

One very learner-friendly feature of Afrikaans is that die is used as the definite article for:

• singular nouns
• plural nouns
• all grammatical genders

So unlike languages that have different words for different genders or numbers, Afrikaans keeps it simple:

• die boek = the book
• die boeke = the books
• die waarborgbewys = the warranty certificate

So yes, it means the, and no, it is not limited to singular nouns.

Because Afrikaans usually writes compound nouns as a single word.

This noun is made up of:

• waarborg = warranty / guarantee
• bewys = proof / document / certificate

Together, waarborgbewys means something like warranty document, proof of warranty, or warranty receipt/certificate, depending on context.

This is very normal in Afrikaans. Compare:

• huis + deur → huisdeur = front door / house door
• motor + sleutel → motorsleutel = car key

A good rule: if English might write two nouns separately, Afrikaans often joins them into one compound word.

The main word is usually the last part of an Afrikaans compound.

So in waarborgbewys:

• bewys is the head/main noun
• waarborg describes what kind of bewys it is

That means it is literally a kind of proof/document, specifically one connected to a warranty.

This is a very helpful pattern in Afrikaans compounds: look at the last element first to understand the basic category of the word.

Yes. That would mean We have a warranty certificate/receipt.

The difference is:

• die waarborgbewys = the warranty certificate
  a specific one, known to the speaker/listener
• 'n waarborgbewys = a warranty certificate
  any one, not specifically identified

So:

• Ons het die waarborgbewys. = We have the specific warranty document.
• Ons het 'n waarborgbewys. = We have a warranty document.

Also note that the indefinite article in Afrikaans is 'n.

The word order is the normal Afrikaans main clause order:

subject + verb + object

So:

• Ons = subject
• het = verb
• die waarborgbewys = object

That gives:

• Ons het die waarborgbewys.

This is very similar to basic English word order:

• We have the warranty certificate.

Afrikaans word order becomes more interesting in questions, subordinate clauses, and sentences with extra adverbs, but this sentence is the standard straightforward pattern.

You usually make a yes/no question by putting the verb first:

• Het ons die waarborgbewys? = Do we have the warranty certificate?

So the word order changes from:

• Ons het die waarborgbewys.

to:

• Het ons die waarborgbewys?

This kind of inversion is very common in Afrikaans.

Afrikaans normally uses a double nie pattern for negation.

So:

• Ons het die waarborgbewys.
  becomes
• Ons het nie die waarborgbewys nie.

Structure:

• after the verb, you place the first nie
• at the end of the clause, you place the second nie

So a good pattern to remember is:

subject + verb + nie + rest + nie

This double negative structure is one of the most distinctive features of Afrikaans grammar.

A rough English-friendly pronunciation is:

Ons het die waarborgbewys
≈ ons het dee VAHR-borkh buh-VACE

A few useful notes:

• die is pronounced like dee, not like English die
• w in Afrikaans often sounds like English v
• the g in borg is the throaty Afrikaans/Dutch-style sound, not a hard English g
• bewys sounds roughly like buh-vace or buh-vays

You do not need to pronounce it perfectly right away, but it helps to know that some letters do not sound the way an English speaker might first expect.

Yes, in natural English that can be a perfectly good translation.

Afrikaans Ons het ... often corresponds to English:

• We have ...
• We’ve got ...

So depending on tone and context, both can work:

• Ons het die waarborgbewys.
• We have the warranty receipt.
• We’ve got the warranty receipt.

The Afrikaans itself is neutral and simply expresses possession.