Die trekvoël en standvoël deel die nesplek.

These are all compound nouns, which are very common in Afrikaans.

• trekvoël = trek
  • voël
    
    • trek can mean move, travel, or migrate
    • voël = bird
• standvoël = stand
  • voël
    
    • stand here suggests staying or remaining in place
    • so it refers to a resident / non-migratory bird
• nesplek = nes
  • plek
    
    • nes = nest
    • plek = place

Afrikaans often builds meaning this way by joining nouns or stems together into one word.

Because Afrikaans usually writes compound nouns as a single word.

This is similar to German and, to some extent, English words like bedroom or football, except Afrikaans does this much more consistently.

So:

• trek
  • voël → trekvoël
• stand
  • voël → standvoël
• nes
  • plek → nesplek

A useful rule: if English might write something as bird nest, nesting place, or migratory bird, Afrikaans will often prefer one combined word.

The ë shows that the vowels are pronounced separately rather than blending into one sound.

So voël is not said like one smooth vowel. It is pronounced in two syllables, roughly:

• voël ≈ FOO-uhl or foo-el

The dots are called a diaeresis. In Afrikaans, they often help show that two vowels belong to different syllables.

No. Afrikaans does not use grammatical gender the way German does.

The word die is the normal definite article for the. It is used regardless of masculine, feminine, or neuter, because Afrikaans no longer makes those article distinctions.

So in this sentence:

• die trekvoël = the migratory bird
• die nesplek = the nesting place

That is much simpler than German-style article systems.

Because the sentence is talking about two separate nouns joined by en:

• die trekvoël
• die standvoël

Repeating die makes it clear that each noun has its own article. This is very natural in Afrikaans, just as in English you would often say:

• the migratory bird and the resident bird

rather than leaving out the second the.

Because Afrikaans verbs usually do not change much for person or number in the present tense.

So you get:

• ek deel
• jy deel
• hy/sy deel
• ons deel
• hulle deel

The verb stays deel.

That is why Die trekvoël en standvoël deel ... uses deel, even though the subject is plural in meaning.

It follows the normal Afrikaans main-clause pattern:

Subject + Verb + Object

So here:

• Die trekvoël en standvoël = subject
• deel = verb
• die nesplek = object

That is very similar to standard English word order in a simple statement.

Good question: die can indeed be used with both singular and plural nouns.

You know voël is singular because of the noun form itself:

• singular: voël
• plural: voëls

So in this sentence, each noun is singular:

• die trekvoël
• die standvoël

Together they make a compound subject referring to two birds, but each individual noun is still singular in form.

Because Afrikaans does not capitalize all nouns.

Unlike German, Afrikaans only capitalizes:

• the first word of a sentence
• proper names
• certain special cases

So words like trekvoël, standvoël, and nesplek stay lowercase unless they begin the sentence.

Yes. deel can also be a noun in Afrikaans, meaning part or section in some contexts.

But in this sentence, it is clearly a verb, because it comes after the subject and before the object:

• Die trekvoël en standvoël = subject
• deel = verb
• die nesplek = object

So here it means share.