Byvoorbeeld means for example.
In this sentence, it appears after the verb and before the object:
That placement is natural in Afrikaans. It tells the listener that inspecting the oil is one example of what we do.
Byvoorbeeld is fairly flexible in position, but the word order of the rest of the sentence must still follow normal Afrikaans rules.
Yes. You can put byvoorbeeld first, but then Afrikaans main-clause word order changes because the verb must stay in the second position.
So you get:
Notice that inspekteer comes before ons here. That is a very important Afrikaans pattern: if something other than the subject comes first, the verb still stays second.
Die is the definite article in Afrikaans, corresponding to English the.
One nice thing for learners is that die does not change for gender. Afrikaans does not have separate words like the for masculine, feminine, and neuter nouns.
So die can be used with:
In this sentence, die olie means the oil.
Die means the, while ’n means a/an.
So the choice depends on whether the noun is definite or indefinite.
Also, olie is usually a mass noun, like water or sand in English. Mass nouns often refer to a substance rather than one separate item. Because of that, die olie is very natural when talking about a specific oil being inspected.
’n olie is possible only in more specific contexts, such as talking about a kind of oil, but it is less basic and less common in ordinary usage.
Yes. This is a normal main-clause pattern:
subject + verb + adverb + object
So:
Afrikaans is a verb-second language in main clauses. Since the subject comes first here, the verb comes immediately after it.
Usually not in a short sentence like this.
Afrikaans punctuation is often a bit lighter than English punctuation in similar cases. So:
is perfectly normal without commas.
A comma might appear in longer or more interrupted sentences, but in this simple sentence it is not needed.