Questions & Answers about Ons sal seker môre vroeg vertrek.
What is the role of each word in Ons sal seker môre vroeg vertrek?
- Ons = we
- sal = will
- seker = probably / likely in this sentence
- môre = tomorrow
- vroeg = early
- vertrek = leave / depart
So the structure is basically:
subject + future/modal verb + sentence adverb + time expression + main verb
Why is sal near the beginning, but vertrek comes at the end?
Because Afrikaans main clauses usually put the finite verb in second position.
Here, sal is the finite verb, so it has to come right after the subject:
- Ons sal ...
The main verb vertrek then goes to the end in its base form.
So:
- Ons vertrek môre vroeg. = We leave early tomorrow.
- Ons sal môre vroeg vertrek. = We will leave early tomorrow.
This is very normal Afrikaans word order with modal verbs like sal, kan, moet, wil, etc.
Why isn’t there a te before vertrek?