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Questions & Answers about Die e-boek is beskikbaar.
What does die mean here?
Why is it die and not 'n?
Does die change for gender or number?
Afrikaans normally writes this with a hyphen because e- is a shortened form meaning electronic.
This is the same pattern as words like:
So the hyphen is standard spelling here.
Is is the present-tense form of the verb wees (to be).
In this sentence it works just like English is:
A useful thing to know is that Afrikaans uses is with all persons in the present tense:
So Afrikaans does not change the verb the way English does with am / is / are.
Because after is, Afrikaans adjectives normally stay in their basic form.
So you say:
But when an adjective comes before a noun, it often takes -e:
So:
That difference is very common in Afrikaans.
Afrikaans usually uses a double nie pattern.
So the negative version is:
Die e-boek is nie beskikbaar nie.
Structure:
This is one of the most important Afrikaans sentence patterns to learn.