Die verpakking is skoon.

Verpakking usually means packaging, packing, or package/packaging material, depending on context.

In Die verpakking is skoon, it most naturally means something like:

• The packaging is clean.
• or The package is clean, if the context is about the outside wrapping/container.

So the exact English word depends on the situation, but verpakking is closely related to English packaging.

Yes. Die in Afrikaans usually means the.

So:

• die verpakking = the packaging

Unlike in English, Afrikaans uses die for:

• singular nouns: die boek = the book
• plural nouns: die boeke = the books

So die does not tell you by itself whether the noun is singular or plural; the noun form does that.

Here it is singular.

You can tell because:

• verpakking is the singular noun
• verpakkings would be the plural in many contexts if you are talking about separate packages/package types, though usage can vary depending on meaning

So Die verpakking is skoon means The packaging is clean, with verpakking treated as one thing.

Yes. is in Afrikaans works like English is here.

So the sentence breaks down as:

• Die verpakking = The packaging
• is = is
• skoon = clean

Afrikaans often looks very familiar to English speakers in simple present-tense sentences like this.

In this sentence, skoon means clean.

It can also have related meanings depending on context, such as:

• clean
• neat
• sometimes clear or free of something

Examples:

• Die kamer is skoon. = The room is clean.
• Die water is skoon. = The water is clean.

So here, the basic meaning clean is the right one.

Because skoon comes after the verb is, where Afrikaans adjectives normally stay in their basic form.

Compare:

• Die verpakking is skoon. = The packaging is clean.
• die skoon verpakking = the clean packaging

After is, the adjective is usually unchanged:

• Die kos is warm.
• Die boks is groot.
• Die verpakking is skoon.

Before a noun, Afrikaans often adds -e to the adjective:

• die skoon verpakking
• die warm kos
• die groot boks

So skoon here is correct because it is a predicate adjective.

Yes, in this simple statement it is basically the same:

• Die verpakking = subject
• is = verb
• skoon = adjective/complement

So it follows the same pattern as:

• The packaging is clean.

This makes sentences like this quite easy for English speakers to understand.

A rough English-friendly guide is:

• Die ≈ dee
• verpakking ≈ fair-PAK-ing
• is ≈ iss
• skoon ≈ something like skohn / skoon

A few notes:

• Die in Afrikaans is not pronounced like English die.
• The g in verpakking is not a hard English g sound here; in many Afrikaans accents it is a guttural/ch-like sound.
• skoon rhymes roughly with a long o sound.

A more approximate full pronunciation: dee fair-PAK-ing iss skohn

Usually skoon is the most natural word here.

Rein can mean clean/pure, but it is less common in everyday speech for ordinary physical cleanliness. It can sound more formal, literary, or specialized depending on context.

So for normal everyday Afrikaans:

• Die verpakking is skoon. = the natural choice

Yes, it is grammatically correct and natural.

You might hear it in contexts like:

• checking whether food packaging is hygienic
• describing a product before use
• talking about a box, wrapper, or container

Depending on the exact situation, speakers might also use more specific nouns, such as words for box, container, packet, or wrapper. But verpakking itself is perfectly normal.

The negative is:

Die verpakking is nie skoon nie.

Afrikaans usually uses double nie in standard negation:

• is nie ... nie

So:

• Die verpakking is skoon. = The packaging is clean.
• Die verpakking is nie skoon nie. = The packaging is not clean.

This double negative pattern is one of the most important things to get used to in Afrikaans.

You can make it a yes/no question by putting the verb first:

Is die verpakking skoon?

That means:

Is the packaging clean?

This is similar to English verb-subject inversion:

• The packaging is clean.
• Is the packaging clean?

Yes. It is part of the same family of words and is easy for English speakers to recognize.

Related ideas:

• pak = pack
• verpak = to package / to pack
• verpakking = packaging

So this is a good example of a helpful Afrikaans-English similarity.