Was is the past tense of wees or is in this kind of sentence, so it means was in English.
So:
Unlike English am/is/are, Afrikaans does not change the verb for different persons in the same way. Was stays was.
No. Afrikaans does not use grammatical gender the way languages like German do.
So:
This is one reason Afrikaans grammar is often simpler for English speakers than some other European languages.
A rough pronunciation guide is:
A few pronunciation notes:
Yes, but in this sentence it clearly means the.
Afrikaans die can also appear in other roles, depending on context, but for a beginner the most important meaning is the definite article the.
In Die daad was goed, the structure is straightforward:
So there is no real ambiguity here.
Yes. That is a very natural alternative, but it means something slightly different in structure.
Notice the adjective change again:
So both are correct, but they are built differently.