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?
Why is there no article before kommentaar?
Why is help not helps?
Because Afrikaans verbs do not change the way English verbs do in the present tense.
In English:
- I help
- she helps
In Afrikaans, the verb stays the same:
- Ek help
- Sy help
- Haar kommentaar help
So help can mean help or helps, depending on the subject.
Is the word order the same as in English here?
Yes. This is a basic main-clause pattern:
- Haar kommentaar = subject
- help = verb
So the structure is simply Subject + Verb, just like in English:
- Her comments help.
This sentence is straightforward and does not use the special verb-second complications that Afrikaans can show in other sentence types.
What exactly does kommentaar mean?
Kommentaar is a noun meaning something like commentary, comment, or comments, depending on context.
In real use, it often behaves like a general or collective noun, similar to commentary or feedback in English. So Haar kommentaar help can naturally mean something like:
- Her comments help
- Her commentary helps
- Her feedback helps
If you want to talk about one specific comment, Afrikaans may also use words like opmerking, depending on the context.
Does help here mean present tense only?
How would this sentence be pronounced?
Can haar kommentaar be singular or plural in English?
Yes, depending on context and on how the meaning was translated for the learner.
Afrikaans kommentaar does not always match neatly with a single English count noun. So it may be rendered as:
- her comment
- her comments
- her commentary
- her feedback
That is normal. The context tells you which English version sounds best.
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