Daar is min mense by die stasie.

In this sentence, daar is works like English there is or there are.

So:

• Daar is min mense = There are few people

Here daar does not mean a specific place like there over there. It is an existential there, used to say that something exists or is present.

Afrikaans uses is for both singular and plural in this kind of sentence, so you do not change it the way English changes is/are.

Afrikaans does not change the verb is the way English changes is to are.

Compare:

• Daar is een mens = There is one person
• Daar is min mense = There are few people

So even with a plural noun like mense, Afrikaans still uses is here.

Min means few or not many.

In this sentence:

• min mense = few people

It suggests a small number, often with the feeling that the number is lower than expected or lower than normal.

A few comparisons:

• Daar is min mense by die stasie. = There are few people at the station.
• Daar is baie mense by die stasie. = There are many people at the station.

Mense is the plural of mens.

• mens = person / human
• mense = people

This is just the normal plural form of this word in Afrikaans. It is similar to Dutch mensen, but Afrikaans uses mense.

So:

• een mens = one person
• twee mense = two people

By die stasie means at the station.

The preposition by often means:

• at
• by
• sometimes near, depending on context

In this sentence, by die stasie is the natural Afrikaans way to say at the station.

So:

• by die huis = at the house / at home
• by die skool = at the school
• by die stasie = at the station

Yes. Die here means the.

Afrikaans uses die as the definite article for both singular and plural nouns.

Examples:

• die stasie = the station
• die mens = the person
• die mense = the people

Unlike English, Afrikaans does not have different forms like the for singular and plural anyway, so die stays the same.

Yes. Stasie means station, and it is clearly related to the English word.

It is a common everyday noun, especially in contexts like:

• treinstasie = train station
• busstasie = bus station

In your sentence, die stasie usually means the station, often understood from context as a train station or transport station.

The basic structure is:

• Daar is
  • quantity/noun + place

So:

• Daar is = there is/are
• min mense = few people
• by die stasie = at the station

This is a very common Afrikaans pattern for saying that something exists somewhere.

A literal breakdown would be:

• Daar is min mense by die stasie.
• There are few people at the station.

Yes, you could, but it is not exactly the same in feel.

• Daar is min mense by die stasie.
  This is the most natural way to say There are few people at the station.

• Min mense is by die stasie.
  This sounds more like Few people are at the station, with more focus on min mense as the subject.

So both can be grammatical, but Daar is min mense by die stasie is the most natural choice for introducing the situation.

Usually, yes, when it means few in the sense of countable things.

For example:

• min mense = few people
• min motors = few cars
• min boeke = few books

But min can also mean little with uncountable things in some contexts:

• min water = little water
• min geld = little money

So min can be used with both countable and uncountable nouns, depending on meaning.

A rough guide would be:

Daar is min mense by die stasie
dahr iss min MEN-suh bay dee STAH-see

A few notes:

• Daar sounds roughly like dahr
• is is a short iss
• mense is roughly MEN-suh
• by sounds like English bay
• die in standard Afrikaans is usually like dee
• stasie is roughly STAH-see

This is only an approximation, but it is a useful starting point.