Questions & Answers about Die meterlesing is nuut.
Afrikaans commonly forms compound nouns by joining smaller words into a single word. So meterlesing is a compound made from meter + lesing.
This is very normal in Afrikaans. English often uses two words where Afrikaans uses one, so meter reading in English becomes meterlesing in Afrikaans.
Die is the definite article, so here it means the.
A useful thing for English speakers is that Afrikaans does not have grammatical gender for nouns in the article system the way some other European languages do. So die is used for the regardless of whether the noun is singular or plural, and regardless of natural gender.
No. In Afrikaans, the verb wees (to be) is much simpler in the present tense than in English. The form is is used with all persons:
So in Die meterlesing is nuut, is works exactly as expected and does not need to agree differently with the subject.