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Learn Hardcore Afrikaans: Die polisiestasie is ver. - The police station is far away.

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Die polisiestasie is ver.

Die polisiestasie is ver.

The police station is far away.

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Questions & Answers about Die polisiestasie is ver.

How do I pronounce Die polisiestasie is ver?

A rough guide is:

Die → dee
polisiestasie → roughly po-lee-see-sta-see
is → like iss
ver → roughly fer

Two useful pronunciation notes:

Afrikaans die is not pronounced like the English word die. It sounds like dee.
Afrikaans v often sounds close to an English f, so ver sounds like fer.

What does each word do in the sentence?

Here is the breakdown:

Die = the
polisiestasie = police station
is = is
ver = far

So the structure is very straightforward:

subject: Die polisiestasie
verb: is
description: ver

Why is die used here?

Die is the Afrikaans definite article, meaning the.

So die polisiestasie means the police station, not a police station.

A helpful thing for English speakers: Afrikaans uses die for:

singular nouns
plural nouns
all genders

So unlike languages such as German or Dutch, you do not have to learn different forms for masculine, feminine, or neuter here.

Does die change for gender or number?

No. That is one of the nice things about Afrikaans.

Die stays die for:

masculine nouns
feminine nouns
neuter nouns
singular nouns
plural nouns

So in this sentence, die is just the normal word for the.

Why is polisiestasie written as one word?

Afrikaans very often writes compound nouns as a single word.

So:

polisie = police
stasie = station
polisiestasie = police station

This is very normal in Afrikaans. English often writes similar ideas as two words, but Afrikaans prefers one compound word.

Is is used the same way as English is?

Mostly yes.

Is is the present-tense form of the verb wees, which means to be.

So:

Die polisiestasie is ver = The police station is far

In simple statements like this, it works very much like English is.

Why does ver come after is instead of before polisiestasie?

Because ver is describing the subject through the verb is.

This is called a predicative use of the adjective:

Die polisiestasie is ver = The police station is far

English does the same thing:

The station is far

So the pattern is:

noun + is + adjective

That is why ver comes after is here.

What exactly does ver mean here?

Here ver means far or far away.

It usually refers to distance. In this sentence, the idea is that the police station is not nearby.

Afrikaans often uses just ver where English might say either:

far
far away

So Die polisiestasie is ver is a perfectly natural sentence.

Can I also say Die polisiestasie is ver weg?

Yes. Ver weg means far away more explicitly.

So:

Die polisiestasie is ver = The police station is far
Die polisiestasie is ver weg = The police station is far away

Both are natural. Ver weg just sounds a little more explicit about distance.

How would I make this sentence negative?

You would usually say:

Die polisiestasie is nie ver nie.

Afrikaans commonly uses a double nie pattern for negation:

one nie after the verb phrase
another nie near the end of the sentence

So:

is ver → is nie ver nie

This means is not far.

Is the word order here normal for Afrikaans?

Yes, this is the basic normal word order for a simple statement:

Die polisiestasie = subject
is = verb
ver = complement/adjective

So the sentence follows the common pattern:

subject + verb + rest

For a beginner, this is a very standard Afrikaans sentence structure.

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