Ek was my gesig met warm water.

No. In this sentence, was is the Afrikaans verb meaning wash.

So Ek was my gesig means I wash my face or I am washing my face, depending on context.

A useful thing to remember is that Afrikaans verbs usually do not change form for different subjects in the present tense:

• Ek was = I wash
• Jy was = you wash
• Hy was = he washes

If you want the past tense, you would normally say:

• Ek het my gesig met warm water gewas = I washed my face with warm water

It can mean either, depending on its job in the sentence.

Here, my means my because it comes before the noun gesig and shows possession:

• my gesig = my face

But my can also mean me when it is used as an object:

• Hy sien my = He sees me

So in Ek was my gesig, the my is definitely possessive: my face, not me face.

Because with body parts, Afrikaans normally uses a possessive word like my, jou, sy, etc., rather than a reflexive pronoun.

So:

• Ek was my gesig = I wash my face

This is the normal, natural way to say it.

If you said:

• Ek was myself

that means I wash myself, which sounds broader, like washing your whole body, or it puts focus on yourself rather than on the face.

So for body parts, possessive + noun is the usual pattern.

Because my already determines the noun.

In English, we also say my face, not the my face. Afrikaans works the same way:

• my gesig = my face
• jou hand = your hand
• sy oë = his eyes

So die or ’n would not normally be used here.

Because that is a normal Afrikaans word order.

The basic structure here is:

• Ek = subject
• was = verb
• my gesig = object
• met warm water = prepositional phrase describing how or with what

So the sentence is built like:

subject + verb + object + extra information

That makes Ek was my gesig met warm water sound very natural.

You can sometimes move parts around for emphasis, but this version is the most straightforward one.

It can mean either one.

The Afrikaans present tense often covers both:

• a general or habitual action: I wash my face with warm water
• an action happening now: I am washing my face with warm water

Usually, context tells you which meaning is intended.

If you want to be very explicit about an action happening right now, Afrikaans can use a longer structure such as:

• Ek is besig om my gesig met warm water te was

But in everyday language, the simple present is often enough.

Because warm water is the normal form here.

Afrikaans adjective endings can be tricky, and not every adjective takes -e in front of a noun. Warm is very commonly used without an extra ending in combinations like:

• warm water
• warm kos
• warm weer

So this is something worth learning as a natural pattern: warm water.

Yes. In this sentence, met means with in the sense of using something:

• met warm water = with warm water

It tells you what is being used to wash the face.

That is different from in:

• met warm water = using warm water
• in warm water = in warm water

So Ek was my gesig met warm water means you use warm water to wash your face, not that your face is located in warm water.