Die huurkontrak bevat die deposito, intrekdatum en kennisgewingstydperk.

In this sentence, die means the.

So:

• Die huurkontrak = The rental contract / lease agreement
• die deposito = the deposit

Afrikaans uses die as the definite article for all nouns:

• singular and plural
• common and neuter nouns
• no gender changes like in some other languages

So unlike languages such as German or Dutch, you do not have to learn different forms of the for different noun types.

It appears twice because each noun phrase has its own article:

• Die huurkontrak = the rental contract
• die deposito, intrekdatum en kennisgewingstydperk = the deposit, move-in date, and notice period

Only the first item in the list has die, and that article can cover the rest of the list too.

bevat means contains or includes.

The basic structure is:

• subject + verb + object

So:

• Die huurkontrak = subject
• bevat = verb
• die deposito, intrekdatum en kennisgewingstydperk = object/list

One nice feature of Afrikaans is that verbs usually do not change much according to the subject.

For example:

• Ek bevat would be unusual semantically, but grammatically the verb form stays bevat
• Jy bevat
• Hy bevat
• Ons bevat

So unlike English, where you get I contain but it contains, Afrikaans usually keeps the same verb form.

In this sentence, bevat is the normal present-tense form.

Afrikaans, like Dutch and German, very often forms compound nouns by writing them as one word.

So:

• huur = rent / rental
• kontrak = contract

Together:

• huurkontrak = rental contract or lease agreement

English often writes these ideas as two words, but Afrikaans commonly joins them into one.

This is very normal in Afrikaans. You will see many words like this.

Yes, deposito means deposit.

It looks similar because it is a related international/borrowed word. Afrikaans has quite a few words that will look familiar to English speakers.

A small note:

• In a rental context, this is the money paid upfront as security.
• Depending on context, English might say deposit or security deposit.

So in this sentence, die deposito refers to the deposit specified in the lease.

intrekdatum is another compound noun.

It can be broken down as:

• intrek = move in / take occupancy
• datum = date

So literally it means move-in date.

This is a very common way Afrikaans builds vocabulary: take two meaningful parts and combine them into a single noun.

It is a compound noun made of smaller pieces:

• kennisgewing = notice / notification
• tydperk = period

Together:

• kennisgewingstydperk = notice period

So the sentence says the lease contains the deposit, the move-in date, and the notice period.

This is a good example of how Afrikaans can create long but very logical compound words. If you learn to spot the smaller parts, these words become much easier to understand.

Because Afrikaans, like English, can use one article for a whole list.

So:

• die deposito, intrekdatum en kennisgewingstydperk

means:

• the deposit, move-in date, and notice period

You could repeat the article before each noun in some contexts, but it is usually unnecessary if all the items belong together in one list.

This works much like English:

• the deposit, move-in date, and notice period rather than
• the deposit, the move-in date, and the notice period

Both are possible in English, but the shorter version is very natural. Same idea here.

Yes. This is very standard Afrikaans main-clause word order.

The sentence pattern is:

• Die huurkontrak = subject
• bevat = verb
• die deposito, intrekdatum en kennisgewingstydperk = object

So it follows the usual Subject-Verb-Object pattern.

Afrikaans does have verb-second behavior in main clauses, but here the subject comes first, so the sentence looks very straightforward:

• Subject + Verb + Rest

That makes it feel fairly familiar to English speakers.

Because Afrikaans punctuation in a simple list usually works much like English without an Oxford comma.

So:

• die deposito, intrekdatum en kennisgewingstydperk

is a normal list:

• item 1
• item 2
• en = and
• item 3

A comma before en is usually not needed in a simple list.

A rough English-friendly guide:

• Die ≈ dee
• huurkontrak ≈ HEER-kon-trahk
  
  • uu is like a rounded vowel that may feel unfamiliar; English speakers often approximate it imperfectly
• bevat ≈ buh-FAHT
• deposito ≈ deh-poh-SEE-toh
• intrekdatum ≈ IN-trek-dah-tum
• kennisgewingstydperk ≈ KEN-is-khuh-VINGS-tide-perk

A few pronunciation notes:

• g in Afrikaans is often a throaty sound, not a hard English g
• r is usually trilled or tapped more than in English
• compound words may carry stress on one of the main parts, but learners are usually understood even if stress is not perfect

Yes. That is often a very natural translation.

Depending on context:

• huurkontrak = rental contract
• huurkontrak = lease agreement
• sometimes simply lease

All of these can work. The exact English choice depends on the legal or everyday context.

So if the meaning shown to the learner was The lease agreement contains the deposit, move-in date and notice period, that is perfectly fine.

Very often, yes.

Afrikaans strongly prefers writing compound nouns as one word, especially when they function as a single concept.

In this sentence, all of these are compounds:

• huurkontrak
• intrekdatum
• kennisgewingstydperk

For English speakers, the main habit to build is this:

• if English uses a noun + noun combination,
• Afrikaans will often combine it into one word.

This is one of the most important spelling patterns to get used to in Afrikaans.