Die voorskrif en dosis is gereed.

Die is the Afrikaans definite article, so it corresponds to English the.

A very useful thing for English speakers is that Afrikaans does not change the article for grammatical gender. So:

• die voorskrif = the prescription
• die dosis = the dose
• die dosisse = the doses

The same die works for:

• masculine, feminine, and neuter nouns
• singular and plural nouns

So it is much simpler than languages like German or Dutch in that respect.

Because one article can apply to both nouns when they are joined by en and treated as one combined subject.

So:

• Die voorskrif en dosis = the prescription and dose

This is very natural in Afrikaans. You can also repeat the article:

• Die voorskrif en die dosis

That version is also grammatical, but it sounds a bit more explicit or slightly more separate. In many everyday sentences, using die only once is perfectly normal.

Because in Afrikaans, the verb does not change according to person or number the way English does.

In English, you say:

• it is
• they are

But in Afrikaans, with to be, the present form is still is:

• Die voorskrif is gereed.
• Die voorskrif en dosis is gereed.

So is works here even though the subject contains two nouns.

This is part of a bigger pattern in Afrikaans: verbs are much less inflected than in English.

Voorskrif can mean different things depending on context.

Common meanings include:

• prescription in a medical context
• regulation
• instruction
• requirement

Because this sentence also contains dosis, the medical meaning prescription is the most likely one here.

So even if you already know the sentence meaning, it is useful to remember that voorskrif is not limited to medicine in every context.

Yes. Dosis is the normal Afrikaans word for dose, especially in medical or pharmaceutical contexts.

Its plural is:

• dosis → dosisse

So:

• die dosis = the dose
• die dosisse = the doses

English speakers often find this word easy to recognize because it looks similar to the English medical term.

Because gereed is being used as a predicate adjective after the verb is.

In Afrikaans, adjectives used after a linking verb usually stay in their basic form:

• Die boek is nuut.
• Die medisyne is veilig.
• Die voorskrif en dosis is gereed.

So gereed does not change here.

A lot of Afrikaans adjectives only take an extra ending when they come before a noun, not after is. In this sentence, gereed is in the normal unchanged form.

The word order is very straightforward:

• Die voorskrif en dosis = subject
• is = verb
• gereed = complement/predicate adjective

So the pattern is:

Subject + verb + complement

That is the normal word order for a simple main clause in Afrikaans.

English speakers often like this because it looks very familiar. The sentence structure is close to English:

• The prescription and dose are ready.

A rough learner-friendly guide is:

• Die ≈ dee
• voorskrif ≈ FOHR-skrif
  
  • the v in Afrikaans is often pronounced more like an English f
• dosis ≈ DOH-sis
• is ≈ iss or a very short unstressed is
• gereed ≈ khuh-REET
  
  • the g is the guttural Afrikaans sound, not the English g in go

The hardest sound for most English speakers is the g in gereed. It is made further back in the throat.

You would make the nouns plural, but is would stay the same:

• Die voorskrifte en dosisse is gereed.

Notice:

• voorskrif → voorskrifte
• dosis → dosisse
• is stays is

That last point is especially important, because English speakers often expect the verb to change, but in Afrikaans it does not.