Ons het 'n dag gelede die skedule nagegaan.

Afrikaans usually expresses past actions with the perfect tense, not with a simple past form the way English often does.

So:

Ons het ... nagegaan = We checked / We have checked ...

• het is the auxiliary verb
• nagegaan is the past participle

In everyday Afrikaans, this is the normal way to say that someone checked something in the past.

That is standard Afrikaans word order in a main clause with the perfect tense.

The pattern is:

subject + het + other information + past participle

So here:

• Ons = subject
• het = auxiliary
• 'n dag gelede die skedule = the rest of the information
• nagegaan = past participle at the end

This is very common in Afrikaans:

• Ek het dit gesien.
• Hulle het gister vertrek.
• Ons het die skedule nagegaan.

The verb is nagaan, meaning to check, to go over, or to review.

Its past participle is nagegaan.

This happens because na- is a separable prefix, so the ge- is inserted between na- and the main verb:

• nagaan → na + ge + gaan → nagegaan

This is similar to other Afrikaans verbs with separable prefixes.

Also note that gaan itself has the past participle gegaan, so that remains inside the form.

'n is the Afrikaans indefinite article, meaning a or an.

So:

'n dag = a day

It is always written as 'n, with a lowercase n and an apostrophe in front.

A useful detail: even if it starts a sentence, the 'n itself stays lowercase:

• 'n Dag gelede het ons die skedule nagegaan.

In pronunciation, 'n is very weak and unstressed, more like a neutral vowel sound than a full English an.

In Afrikaans, gelede means ago, but it comes after the time expression.

So the pattern is:

time expression + gelede

Examples:

• 'n dag gelede = a day ago
• twee dae gelede = two days ago
• 'n week gelede = a week ago
• drie jaar gelede = three years ago

So English ago and Afrikaans gelede work similarly in meaning, but you should learn the Afrikaans phrase as a fixed pattern.

Because the sentence says one day ago, so Afrikaans uses the singular:

• 'n dag = a day

The plural dae is used only for more than one day:

• twee dae gelede = two days ago
• vyf dae gelede = five days ago

So 'n dag gelede is exactly what you would expect for a day ago.

die is the Afrikaans definite article, meaning the.

So:

die skedule = the schedule

One nice thing for learners is that Afrikaans uses die for:

• singular nouns
• plural nouns
• all genders

So unlike some other languages, you do not need to learn different forms of the for masculine, feminine, or neuter nouns.

Yes. Skedule is a normal Afrikaans word meaning schedule.

Because it looks similar to the English word, it is easy to recognize, but you should still remember that pronunciation and usage may not be exactly the same as in English.

Depending on context, Afrikaans might also use other words such as:

• rooster = timetable / schedule
• program = program / schedule in some contexts

But in this sentence, die skedule is perfectly natural.

Yes, Afrikaans allows some flexibility with time expressions.

This sentence is natural:

Ons het 'n dag gelede die skedule nagegaan.

You could also say:

Ons het die skedule 'n dag gelede nagegaan.

And if you want to emphasize the time, you can put it first:

'n Dag gelede het ons die skedule nagegaan.

When something other than the subject comes first, Afrikaans still keeps the finite verb in second position, so het must come right after 'n Dag gelede.

In most cases, yes: ons means we or us, depending on its role in the sentence.

Here it is the subject, so it means we:

Ons het ... nagegaan. = We checked ...

Afrikaans does not change the form the way English does with we/us. The same word ons can be used in both functions, and the sentence structure tells you which meaning is intended.