Questions & Answers about Die voet is koud.
When an adjective directly precedes and describes a definite noun, it usually takes an -e ending. To say the cold foot, you’d combine them as:
• die (definite article)
• koue (attributive adjective with -e)
• voet (noun)
Result: die koue voet
• voet is pronounced /fuːt/, with oe like the oo in English “food.”
• koud is pronounced /kɑut/, with ou like the ou in “out.”
Most Afrikaans nouns form the plural with -e. You simply add -e to voet: • voet → voete (“feet”)
Afrikaans follows a basic S-V-C (subject–verb–complement) order, similar to English S-V-O:
• Subject: Die voet
• Verb: is
• Complement (predicative adjective): koud
Yes. In informal, spoken Afrikaans you often hear the contraction ’s attached to the noun or pronoun:
• Die voet’s koud.
However, this is typically avoided in formal writing.