Die risikobeoordeling is belangrik.

to be

Breakdown of Die risikobeoordeling is belangrik.

• belangrik: important
• die risikobeoordeling: risk assessment

Questions & Answers about Die risikobeoordeling is belangrik.

What does die mean in this sentence?

Die is the Afrikaans definite article, so here it means the.

A useful thing to know is that Afrikaans does not have different forms for the based on gender, like some other languages do. So die can mean the for singular and plural nouns in many contexts.

In this sentence:

• die risikobeoordeling = the risk assessment

Why is risikobeoordeling written as one long word?

Afrikaans very often combines nouns into compound words, just like German and sometimes English.

So:

• risiko = risk
• beoordeling = assessment / evaluation
• risikobeoordeling = risk assessment

English sometimes writes these as two words, but Afrikaans commonly writes them as one word when they form a single concept.

Is the word order the same as in English here?

Yes. This sentence follows a very familiar pattern:

• Die risikobeoordeling = subject
• is = verb
• belangrik = adjective/complement

So the structure is:

• The risk assessment is important.

That is basically the same word order as English in a simple statement.