Die voet is koud.

to be

Breakdown of Die voet is koud.

• koud: cold
• die voet: the foot

Questions & Answers about Die voet is koud.

What does Die mean in this sentence?

Die is the definite article in Afrikaans, equivalent to the in English. It marks the noun that follows as specific or known to both speaker and listener.

Does Afrikaans have grammatical gender? Why is die used here for voet?

Afrikaans does not distinguish grammatical gender for nouns. There is only one definite article, die, for all singular and plural nouns. You always use die regardless of whether the noun would be masculine, feminine, or neuter in other languages.

Why doesn’t the adjective koud end in -e, like in koue?

In Afrikaans, adjectives in predicative position (after a form of is) remain in their base form and do not take an -e ending. Here, koud follows the verb is, so it stays koud rather than becoming koude.

How would I say “the cold foot” as an attributive phrase?