Al twee werk in dieselfde kamer.

Both work in the same room.

Breakdown of Al twee werk in dieselfde kamer.

• in: in
• werk: to work
• die kamer: the room
• dieselfde: the same

Questions & Answers about Al twee werk in dieselfde kamer.

What does al twee mean here, and why isn’t it beide or albei?

Al twee means both (of them).

In Afrikaans, there are a few common ways to say both:

• al twee
• albei
• sometimes beide in more formal language

So this sentence could also be said as:

• Al twee werk in dieselfde kamer.
• Albei werk in dieselfde kamer.

These are very close in meaning. For everyday speech, al twee and albei are especially common.

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Why is it twee and not tweë or something else?

The normal Afrikaans word for two is twee.
In al twee, it stays in its basic form.

So:

• een = one
• twee = two
• drie = three

There is nothing special happening to twee here. It simply forms the expression al twee = both.

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Why is the verb werk in the singular form even though the subject means both?