Sy besprinkel die klewerige deeg met broodmeel.

Here sy means she because it is the subject of the sentence.

Afrikaans sy can also mean her, but the function depends on the sentence:

• Sy besprinkel die deeg. = She sprinkles the dough.
• Ek sien sy. = I see her.

So the word form stays the same, and the role in the sentence tells you how to translate it.

Afrikaans main clauses usually follow the V2 rule: the finite verb comes in the second position.

In this sentence:

• Sy = first element
• besprinkel = finite verb in second position
• die klewerige deeg met broodmeel = the rest of the sentence

So Sy besprinkel ... is the normal word order for a simple statement.

Yes, besprinkel is one verb. It means something like sprinkle over or sprinkle.

It is built from:

• sprinkel = sprinkle
• be- = a common prefix that often makes the verb transitive or changes how it takes an object

In practice, you should learn besprinkel as a whole verb.

No, besprinkel is generally treated as inseparable in Afrikaans.

So you do not split it up in normal use. You say:

• Sy besprinkel die deeg.

Not something like splitting off a particle at the end.

Because Afrikaans adjectives usually take -e when they come before a noun.

So:

• klewerig = sticky
• klewerige deeg = sticky dough

This is very common:

• 'n warm dag = a warm day
• die warm dag = the warm day
• 'n interessante boek = an interesting book

So klewerige is the expected attributive form before deeg.

Die here means the.

A very useful feature of Afrikaans is that die does not change for grammatical gender. It is used widely for:

• singular nouns
• plural nouns
• all genders

Examples:

• die deeg = the dough
• die brood = the bread
• die boeke = the books

So unlike languages with masculine/feminine/neuter article changes, Afrikaans keeps this much simpler.

Because broodmeel is being used as a material/substance noun here, much like English with flour rather than with a flour.

So:

• met broodmeel = with bread flour

If you wanted to refer to a specific flour, context could make that clearer, but in this sentence the bare noun sounds natural.

Met broodmeel tells you what she is using to sprinkle the dough.

• met = with
• broodmeel = bread flour

So it works much like an English with-phrase:

• Sy besprinkel die deeg met broodmeel.
• She sprinkles the dough with bread flour.

It shows the substance being applied.

Broodmeel literally means bread flour.

It is a compound noun:

• brood = bread
• meel = flour

Afrikaans makes a lot of compound nouns this way, just like English and Dutch.

Here deeg means dough as a mass noun, similar to English.

So:

• die deeg = the dough

It is treated as one substance, not as separate individual items. That is why singular makes sense here.

It is in the present tense.

• Sy besprinkel ... = She sprinkles ... / She is sprinkling ...

Afrikaans present tense often covers both the simple present and the present progressive, depending on context.

A common past construction in Afrikaans uses het + past participle:

• Sy het die klewerige deeg met broodmeel besprinkel.

That means:

• She sprinkled the sticky dough with bread flour.

Notice that:

• het comes early in the sentence
• besprinkel moves to the end as the participle form, which here looks the same as the base verb

They are related in meaning.

• kleef = to stick, cling
• klewerig = sticky

So klewerige deeg means dough that sticks or feels tacky. This is a good example of how Afrikaans often builds adjectives from related verb or noun roots.

Yes, that can be understandable, but besprinkel often sounds more natural when you mean sprinkle something over a surface/object.

Very roughly:

• sprinkel = sprinkle
• besprinkel = sprinkle onto/over something

So in this sentence, besprinkel is a good choice because the dough is the thing being covered or dusted.