Is jy klaar met jou vraag?

you

Breakdown of Is jy klaar met jou vraag?

• met: with
• die vraag: the question
• jou: your
• klaar: finished

Questions & Answers about Is jy klaar met jou vraag?

Why is the sentence phrased as 'Is jy klaar met jou vraag?' instead of just 'Is jy klaar jou vraag?'

In Afrikaans, met (meaning with) is needed after klaar when indicating what you are finished doing. Direct translation would be “Are you done with your question?”. Omitting met would be ungrammatical in this context.

What does 'klaar' mean, and can it be replaced with another word?

Klaar generally means done, finished, or ready. You might see Afrikaans speakers use gereed (ready) in some contexts, but in this specific sentence, klaar is more natural to indicate finished with something.

Why does the question start with 'Is jy' instead of 'Jy is' or 'Is jy nie'?

In Afrikaans, like English, questions can be formed by inverting the subject and the verb. Is jy is the correct question form. If you said Jy is klaar met jou vraag, that would be a statement meaning You are finished with your question rather than a question.

Can we drop the pronoun 'jy' to ask 'Is klaar met jou vraag?'

No. You need the subject (in this case, jy meaning you) in the sentence to indicate who is doing the action. Simply saying Is klaar met jou vraag? would not be grammatically correct in Afrikaans.

Does 'jou' only translate to 'your' or can it have other meanings too?

Jou is specifically the second-person singular possessive pronoun meaning your. In other contexts, if you needed to say you (object pronoun), you would use jou for that as well, for example: Ek sien jou (I see you). So it can serve both as you (object) and your (possessive) depending on the sentence structure.