Die tuisspan het die vorige wedstryd gewen.

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Breakdown of Die tuisspan het die vorige wedstryd gewen.

• hê: to have
• wen: to win
• die wedstryd: match; game

Questions & Answers about Die tuisspan het die vorige wedstryd gewen.

What does tuisspan mean, and why is it written as one word?

Tuisspan means home team.

It is one word because Afrikaans very often forms compounds by joining nouns together:

• tuis = home
• span = team

So tuisspan is literally home-team. This is very common in Afrikaans, and often more common than writing separate words the way English does.

Why is die used twice in the sentence?

Because both nouns are definite:

• Die tuisspan = the home team
• die vorige wedstryd = the previous match

Afrikaans uses die as the definite article for the, and it does not change for gender. It is also used for both singular and plural in many contexts, so it is a very flexible word compared with English the.

Why does the sentence use het ... gewen instead of just one past-tense verb?