Volgende jaar sal ons weer strand toe gaan.

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Breakdown of Volgende jaar sal ons weer strand toe gaan.

• ons: we
• sal: will
• volgende: next

Questions & Answers about Volgende jaar sal ons weer strand toe gaan.

Why is sal used here, and what tense does it make?

Sal is the Afrikaans marker for the future tense. It works a lot like will in English.

So in this sentence: Volgende jaar sal ons weer strand toe gaan.

the word sal tells you that the action will happen in the future.

A very common future pattern in Afrikaans is:

subject + sal + ... + main verb at the end

Here:

• ons = subject
• sal = future marker
• gaan = main verb, placed at the end

Why are there two verbs, sal and gaan?

This is a very common thing for English speakers to ask.

• sal does not mean go here
• gaan is the actual verb meaning to go

In this sentence:

• sal = will
• gaan = go

So together, they mean will go.

This is similar to English:

• We will go

  Afrikaans:

• Ons sal gaan

So even though gaan can sometimes help express future meaning in other contexts, here it is just the main verb, and sal is the future marker.