Sy lewer die verslag.

Here Sy means she.

A useful thing to know is that sy can also mean his in other sentences. The difference is usually clear from the grammar:

• Sy lewer die verslag. = She delivers/submits the report.
• sy verslag = his report

In your sentence, Sy is followed by the verb lewer, so it is clearly the subject pronoun she.

Because Afrikaans verbs usually do not change according to the subject.

So you get:

• Ek lewer
• Jy lewer
• Hy lewer
• Sy lewer
• Ons lewer
• Hulle lewer

This is much simpler than English, where you have I deliver but she delivers. In Afrikaans, the verb stays the same.

Lewer often means deliver, provide, or submit, depending on context.

With die verslag (the report), it can often be understood as something like:

• delivers the report
• submits the report
• hands in the report

So the exact best English translation depends on the situation, but the Afrikaans verb itself is completely normal here.

Die is the Afrikaans definite article, meaning the.

So:

• die verslag = the report

Unlike English, Afrikaans does not have different forms like the for singular and another one for plural. Die is used very widely.

No. Afrikaans does not use grammatical gender the way some other European languages do.

That means:

• die man = the man
• die vrou = the woman
• die kind = the child

The article stays die. So in die verslag, there is no gender information being marked.

Here it is singular: the report.

The plural of verslag is verslae.

So:

• die verslag = the report
• die verslae = the reports

This is a good reminder that die can appear with both singular and plural nouns. The noun form tells you which one it is.

This sentence has the normal main-clause word order:

subject + verb + object

So:

• Sy = subject
• lewer = verb
• die verslag = object

Afrikaans main clauses also follow the verb-second pattern. In this sentence, the subject comes first, so the verb naturally comes second.

For example:

• Sy lewer die verslag vandag.
• Vandag lewer sy die verslag.

In both cases, the finite verb lewer stays in second position.

Because in Afrikaans, the letter w is usually pronounced like an English v sound, not like the English w in water.

So lewer sounds roughly like LAY-vur.

This is very common in Afrikaans spelling and pronunciation.

Afrikaans normally uses a double nie pattern for negation.

So:

• Sy lewer die verslag nie. is not correct in standard Afrikaans.
• Correct: Sy lewer nie die verslag nie.

That means She does not deliver/submit the report.

A very important pattern to learn is:

subject + verb + nie + rest of sentence + nie

For a yes/no question, Afrikaans usually puts the verb first:

• Lewer sy die verslag?

That means Does she deliver/submit the report?

So the statement:

• Sy lewer die verslag.

becomes:

• Lewer sy die verslag?

A common past-tense form in Afrikaans uses het plus a past participle.

So:

• Sy het die verslag gelewer.

This means She delivered/submitted the report.

Notice the pattern:

• het = auxiliary
• gelewer = past participle of lewer

A common future construction uses sal plus the main verb.

So:

• Sy sal die verslag lewer.

This means She will deliver/submit the report.

This is a very useful pattern in Afrikaans:

subject + sal + object + main verb