Sy eet nog ’n appel.

to eat

Breakdown of Sy eet nog ’n appel.

• die appel: the apple
• sy: she
• nog ’n: another

Questions & Answers about Sy eet nog ’n appel.

What does Sy mean?

Sy is the third-person singular subject pronoun in Afrikaans, equivalent to she in English.

How is eet used here and how would you translate it?

eet is the present-tense form of the verb eet (to eat). In English you can render it as eats (simple present) or is eating (present continuous), since Afrikaans uses one form for both.

What do nog and ’n mean individually, and what does nog ’n mean together?

nog on its own can mean more, still, or yet. ’n is the indefinite article (a/an). Combined, nog ’n means another or one more.

Why is the indefinite article written as ’n with an apostrophe, and how is that different from een?

The apostrophe in ’n shows it’s a shortened form of een. As ’n it functions as the article a/an, whereas the full word een is the numeral one.