Ons buurvrou stuur vir haar warm sop, omdat die apteek nie meer oop is nie.

Here it means our because it comes before the noun buurvrou.

• ons buurvrou = our neighbour
• ons can also mean us in other sentences, but not in this position.

So word order helps you tell the difference.

Yes. Buurvrou means female neighbour or neighbour woman.

It is a compound:

• buur = neighbour
• vrou = woman / wife

So buurvrou is specifically a woman. A male neighbour would be buurman.

In this sentence, vir marks the person who receives something.

So:

• stuur vir haar warm sop = send warm soup to her

It works a lot like English to here, even though Afrikaans uses vir, not a separate word meaning to in this structure.

With people, especially pronouns like hom, haar, and hulle, this is very common in Afrikaans:

• Ek gee vir hom die boek.
• Sy stuur vir haar sop.

So vir haar tells you who the soup is being sent to.

Here haar means her.

More specifically, after vir, it means to her:

• vir haar = to her

It is not the subject of the sentence. The subject is Ons buurvrou.

So the structure is:

• Ons buurvrou = the person doing the action
• stuur = sends
• vir haar = to her
• warm sop = warm soup

Usually, learners will understand haar as referring to some other female person, not the neighbour.

Grammatically, Afrikaans can sometimes allow pronouns to refer back depending on context, but in a simple reading of this sentence:

• Ons buurvrou = the sender
• haar = another female person who receives the soup

So unless the wider context says otherwise, it is safest to read haar as someone else / another woman or girl.

Because sop is being used as a general substance or mass noun here, much like English soup.

English also often says:

• She sends her warm soup rather than
• She sends her a warm soup

Afrikaans does the same kind of thing here:

• warm sop = warm soup

If you wanted to be more specific, you might name the portion or container:

• 'n bak warm sop = a bowl of warm soup

Nie meer ... nie means no longer or not anymore.

In this sentence:

• die apteek nie meer oop is nie = the pharmacy is no longer open

This is a very common Afrikaans pattern:

• Ek woon nie meer daar nie. = I no longer live there.
• Hy werk nie meer hier nie. = He doesn’t work here anymore.

So meer here does not mean ordinary more by itself. In this negative pattern, it gives the sense of anymore / no longer.

Because standard Afrikaans normally uses double negation.

A basic negative sentence often has:

• first nie after the element being negated
• second nie at the end of the clause

So:

• Die apteek is nie oop nie. = The pharmacy is not open.

With meer added:

• Die apteek is nie meer oop nie. = The pharmacy is no longer open.

That final nie is a normal part of standard written Afrikaans.

Because omdat introduces a subordinate clause, and subordinate clauses in Afrikaans push the finite verb toward the end.

Main clause:

• Die apteek is nie meer oop nie.

After omdat:

• omdat die apteek nie meer oop is nie

So the verb is moves to the end part of the clause, just before the final nie.

This is one of the most important word-order patterns in Afrikaans:

• main clause: verb usually early
• subordinate clause: verb usually later, often near the end

Omdat means because.

It introduces the reason:

• Ons buurvrou stuur vir haar warm sop = the main action
• omdat die apteek nie meer oop is nie = the reason

The comma is standard in Afrikaans before this kind of subordinate clause. So the sentence is naturally written with a comma before omdat.

Yes, in this sentence apteek is best understood as pharmacy.

Depending on the variety of English, it may also feel close to:

• chemist
• drugstore (in some contexts)

But pharmacy is the most direct match.

Yes. Stuur means send.

In a sentence like this, it can suggest sending something over to someone, not necessarily by mail. It may just mean arranging for it to be taken or delivered.

So stuur vir haar warm sop can sound natural as:

• sends her warm soup
• sends over some warm soup

The exact real-world method is not the focus; the key idea is that the neighbour makes sure the soup gets to her.