Ná halftyd volg 'n skrum en 'n lynstaan.

Because Afrikaans is a verb-second language in main clauses. The sentence starts with the time phrase Ná halftyd, so the finite verb volg has to come next, and the subject comes after that.

So the structure is:

Ná halftyd + volg + 'n skrum en 'n lynstaan

In a more neutral order, you could also say:

'n skrum en 'n lynstaan volg ná halftyd.

Here ná means after.

The accent matters because ná is distinguished from na, which often means to or towards in Afrikaans. So the accent helps show that the meaning is after halftime, not something else.

Afrikaans very often writes compound nouns as a single word. So halftyd is one compound noun, made from:

• half
• tyd = time

This is very common in Afrikaans, much more so than in English.

'n is the Afrikaans indefinite article, equivalent to English a or an.

It is usually pronounced as a very weak uh sound, like a schwa. In normal speech, it is unstressed and closely attached to the following word.

A useful writing rule: if a sentence starts with 'n, the 'n itself stays lowercase, and the next word gets the capital letter. For example:

'n Skrum begin nou.

Because Afrikaans verbs do not change form for person or number in the present tense the way English verbs sometimes do.

So you get:

• Ek volg
• Hy volg
• Hulle volg

The same form volg works with both singular and plural subjects.

Yes. Both are rugby terms.

• skrum corresponds to English scrum
• lynstaan corresponds to English line-out

So this sentence is clearly in a rugby context.

Because the sentence is referring to two separate indefinite things: a scrum and a line-out.

Repeating the article is the most natural and clear way to express that each noun is its own item. In other words, Afrikaans is treating them as:

• 'n skrum
• en
• 'n lynstaan

Yes, absolutely.

That version is grammatically correct and probably feels more straightforward to an English speaker because the subject comes first. The original sentence puts Ná halftyd first to foreground the time, and that triggers the verb-second word order.

So both are correct, but the emphasis is slightly different:

• Ná halftyd volg 'n skrum en 'n lynstaan. = emphasis on after halftime
• 'n skrum en 'n lynstaan volg ná halftyd. = more neutral statement

Usually, no.

In a short Afrikaans sentence like this, a fronted time phrase such as Ná halftyd normally does not need a comma. A comma might appear in longer or more dramatic sentences, but here it would usually be left out.