Die draaibeweging is vinnig.

to be

Breakdown of Die draaibeweging is vinnig.

• vinnig: fast
• die draaibeweging: turning movement

Questions & Answers about Die draaibeweging is vinnig.

Why is draaibeweging written as one word?

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

So:

• draai = turn / turning
• beweging = movement

Together, draaibeweging means something like turning movement, rotational movement, or spinning motion, depending on context.

This is very normal in Afrikaans. English often writes these as two words, but Afrikaans usually prefers one compound word.

What does die mean here?

Die here means the.

A useful thing for English speakers is that Afrikaans does not have grammatical gender in the same way languages like German or Dutch do for articles. So die is used for the regardless of whether the noun would be masculine, feminine, or neuter in other languages.

Examples:

• die man = the man
• die vrou = the woman
• die kind = the child

So in Die draaibeweging is vinnig, die is simply the definite article: the.

Why is the word order Die draaibeweging is vinnig?