Die plan het een nuttige eienskap.

The plan has one useful characteristic.

Breakdown of Die plan het een nuttige eienskap.

• hê: to have
• die plan: the plan
• een: one
• nuttig: useful

Questions & Answers about Die plan het een nuttige eienskap.

Why is die used at the beginning of the sentence?

Die is the definite article in Afrikaans, meaning the. Afrikaans does not use different definite articles for masculine, feminine, or neuter nouns, so die works for all of them. It is also used for plural the.

What does het mean here?

Here het means has. So Die plan het ... = The plan has ...

Be careful: het can also be an auxiliary verb in perfect tenses, but in this sentence it is the main verb meaning possession.

Why does the sentence use een instead of ’n?

Een means one as a number, while ’n means a/an.

So een nuttige eienskap means one useful characteristic, with some emphasis on the number one. If you just wanted to say a useful characteristic in a neutral way, you would usually say:

Die plan het ’n nuttige eienskap.

Why is it nuttige and not nuttig?