Ek moet die stoel môre aan my buurvrou teruggee, want ek het dit net vir een dag geleen.

Because Afrikaans main clauses usually follow the verb-second rule:

• the finite verb goes in the second position
• any infinitive often goes to the end

Here, moet is the finite verb, so it comes second:

• Ek moet ...

Then the infinitive teruggee goes to the end of the clause:

• Ek moet die stoel môre aan my buurvrou teruggee.

This is very common with modal verbs such as moet, kan, wil, and mag.

Good question. Teruggee is a separable compound verb: terug + gee.

When it is used as an infinitive, it is written as one word:

• ... moet teruggee

But when the verb itself is finite in a main clause, it usually splits:

• Ek gee die stoel môre aan my buurvrou terug.

So both patterns are normal:

• moet teruggee → together
• gee ... terug → split

Aan marks the recipient of the action, like English to in give it back to my neighbour.

So:

• aan my buurvrou = to my neighbour

With verbs like gee and teruggee, Afrikaans very often uses aan before the person receiving something.

Compare:

• Ek gee dit aan haar. = I give it to her.
• Ek gee dit terug aan haar. = I give it back to her.

Because dit means it, and Afrikaans often uses it to refer back to a previously mentioned thing.

So:

• die stoel = the chair
• dit = it

This avoids repetition, just like in English.

Also, Afrikaans does not use grammatical gender the way some other languages do. A noun like stoel does not force a masculine or feminine pronoun. For an object like this, dit is the normal choice.

This is the normal Afrikaans perfect tense pattern:

• het = auxiliary verb
• geleen = past participle

So the structure is:

• Ek het dit net vir een dag geleen.

In main clauses, the auxiliary het comes early, and the participle geleen goes to the end.

Compare:

• Ek leen dit. = I borrow/lend it.
• Ek het dit geleen. = I borrowed/lent it.

Yes, it can be confusing. Leen can be used for both ideas, so context matters.

In this sentence, it clearly means borrowed, because the speaker says they must give the chair back to the neighbour.

A useful guide:

• leen by iemand = borrow from someone
• leen aan iemand = lend to someone

For example:

• Ek het die boek by my vriend geleen. = I borrowed the book from my friend.
• Ek het die boek aan my vriend geleen. = I lent the book to my friend.

So here, even though by my buurvrou is not stated, the rest of the sentence makes the meaning clear: I borrowed it.

Each word adds something slightly different:

• net = just / only
• vir = for
• een dag = one day

So net vir een dag means for just one day or only for one day.

The use of een instead of 'n is important here:

• een dag emphasizes the number one
• 'n dag just means a day

So net vir een dag sounds more exact and more emphatic.

Because want is a coordinating conjunction, not a subordinating one.

After want, Afrikaans keeps normal main-clause order:

• ..., want ek het dit net vir een dag geleen.

So you still get:

• subject: ek
• finite verb: het
• participle at the end: geleen

If you used omdat instead, the word order would change:

• ..., omdat ek dit net vir een dag geleen het.

So:

• want → normal main-clause order
• omdat → subordinate-clause order

It is not completely fixed. Afrikaans word order is fairly flexible, especially with time expressions.

The given sentence is natural:

• Ek moet die stoel môre aan my buurvrou teruggee.

But you could also say:

• Ek moet môre die stoel aan my buurvrou teruggee.
• Môre moet ek die stoel aan my buurvrou teruggee.

These versions shift the emphasis a little. If môre comes first, then the finite verb still has to stay in second position:

• Môre moet ek ...

That is the verb-second rule again.

Because want joins two full clauses, and in standard written Afrikaans it is normally preceded by a comma.

So the sentence is divided like this:

• Ek moet die stoel môre aan my buurvrou teruggee,
• want ek het dit net vir een dag geleen.

This comma helps show the boundary between the two clauses.

Yes. Buurvrou is a compound noun:

• buur = neighbour
• vrou = woman / wife

So buurvrou means female neighbour.

Afrikaans makes lots of everyday compound words like this. If the neighbour were male, you could say:

• buurman = male neighbour

So my buurvrou is specifically my female neighbour.