Die polisieklaringsertifikaat is sekerlik gereed.

The certificate is certainly ready.

Breakdown of Die polisieklaringsertifikaat is sekerlik gereed.

• wees: to be
• gereed: ready
• die polisieklaringsertifikaat: police clearance certificate
• sekerlik: certainly

Questions & Answers about Die polisieklaringsertifikaat is sekerlik gereed.

What does polisieklaringsertifikaat consist of, and why is it written as one long word?

Afrikaans, like Dutch and German, very often forms compound nouns by writing them as a single word.

Here, polisieklaringsertifikaat can be broken down as:

• polisie = police
• klaring = clearance
• sertifikaat = certificate

So the whole word means police clearance certificate.

This is very normal in Afrikaans. English often writes these as separate words, but Afrikaans usually joins them into one noun.

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Why does the sentence start with die?

Die is the definite article in Afrikaans, meaning the.

So:

• die polisieklaringsertifikaat = the police clearance certificate

Unlike English, Afrikaans does not change the definite article for gender. There is just die for singular and also often for plural definite nouns.

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Why is the verb is in the middle of the sentence?