Dit gebeur vandag.

today

Breakdown of Dit gebeur vandag.

• dit: it
• gebeur: to happen

Questions & Answers about Dit gebeur vandag.

What does each word mean in Dit gebeur vandag?

• Dit = it
• gebeur = happens / is happening
• vandag = today

So the sentence is literally It happens today.

Why is Dit used here?

Dit is the Afrikaans word for it. In this sentence, it works as the subject, just like in English It happens today.

Afrikaans often uses dit in very similar ways to English it. It can refer to a specific thing, or it can be a more general subject when the context already makes clear what is happening.

Why is gebeur not changing for dit?

In Afrikaans, verbs usually do not change according to the subject the way they do in English.

In English, you say:

• I happen
• it happens

But in Afrikaans, the verb normally stays the same:

• ek gebeur would not normally be used semantically, but grammatically the verb form itself does not change
• dit gebeur

This lack of verb conjugation is one reason Afrikaans grammar is often simpler than English grammar in this area.