Haar kommentaar help.

her

Breakdown of Haar kommentaar help.

• help: to help
• die kommentaar: the comment or commentary

Questions & Answers about Haar kommentaar help.

What does haar mean in this sentence?

Here haar means her in the possessive sense: her comment / her commentary / her comments.

So Haar kommentaar = her comment/commentary/comments.

A useful thing to remember is that Afrikaans haar can mean both:

• her as an object pronoun
• her as a possessive word before a noun

The exact meaning depends on where it appears in the sentence.

Why is haar used instead of sy?

Because sy means she, while haar means her.

Compare:

• Sy help. = She helps.
• Haar kommentaar help. = Her commentary/comments help.

So if the word is showing possession before a noun, Afrikaans uses haar, not sy.

Why is there no article before kommentaar?