Elke kamer het ’n venster.

to have

Breakdown of Elke kamer het ’n venster.

• die kamer: the room
• die venster: the window
• ’n: a

Questions & Answers about Elke kamer het ’n venster.

What does Elke mean in this sentence?

Elke is a distributive quantifier meaning “each” or “every.” It’s placed before a singular noun to indicate you’re referring to all individual members of a group one by one (e.g. “every room,” not “all rooms”).

Why isn’t there an article before kamer (like die kamer or ’n kamer)?

In Afrikaans, quantifiers such as Elke, elke, al, etc., replace the need for a separate definite or indefinite article. You never say Elke die kamer or Elke ’n kamer—just Elke kamer, just as in English you say “every room,” not “every a room” or “every the room.”

Why is the indefinite article written as ’n instead of een?

The word een means “one” when you’re counting (just as in English). When een functions purely as an indefinite article (“a/an”), Afrikaans drops the initial e and marks the omission with an apostrophe, giving ’n. It’s pronounced roughly /ən/.

Why does het appear here, and shouldn’t it be heeft (like in Dutch or “has” in English)?