Elon.io is an online learning platform
We have an entire course teaching Afrikaans grammar and vocabulary.
Questions & Answers about Die karton is droog.
What does die mean here?
Die is the Afrikaans definite article, so it usually means the.
A few useful things about die:
- It is used for all nouns.
- Afrikaans does not have grammatical gender like German.
- It does not change for case.
- So die can mean the regardless of whether the noun is masculine, feminine, neuter, singular, or plural.
In Die karton is droog, die karton = the cardboard / the carton.
Why is is the same as in English?
Because Afrikaans and English are related Germanic languages, and some very common words look similar.
In Afrikaans, is is the present-tense form of to be, and it is used very widely. One helpful feature is that Afrikaans verbs do not conjugate the way English verbs do.
So you get:
So in this sentence, is simply means is.
Why is the word order Die karton is droog?