One never refer to the current day's evening as today's evening. Normally you just say: What are you going to do THIS evening?

This is sort of an expression. "Salf" is ointment. Normally when you use this expression it will refer to someone who is reluctant to taking good advice and end up in a bad situation, so there is nothing that can be done for him anymore, thus the expression. Daar is aan jou geen salf te smeer nie. So in other words it can't be fixed (healed).

Hi Frederik, 1) This first sentence seems to have a fault in it. It should read like this: "Jy het jouself nie aan Ronel se ouers voorgestel nie" It means you didn't introduce yourself to Ronel's parents Ouers = Parents 2) The second sentence literally means: When you had to much to drink, you withdrew yourself from the conversation to go and sleep on the toilet. The word "geselskap" can be interpreted in a few different ways. It can refer to a group of people doing various things together, which is the case in this particular sentence. It also literally means "a conversation". 3) I cant picture to myself that the Van der Merwes would in the least have bothered to notice my behavior. Or you could say "I can't imagine that the Van der Merwes..... It seems the key word here is "voorstel". In the first sentence it refers to introducing yourself to someone, whereas in the 3rd sentence, this same word has a complete different meaning. Kan jy jouself voorstel as jy arm moet wees? - Can you imagine yourself as being poor? Sal jy jouself aan my vriende voorstel? - Will you introduce yourself to my friends? So you have to be careful and learn in which context it is to be correctly applied.

I'm not sure what the context of the sentence is. So I won't be able to give you much information on it. "Dat ek jou dit hoor sê het" I would say is past tense. If you want it to be in the present tense, it should read something like this: Ek hoor jou dit sê. I hope I'm not misguiding you here!

This sentence is little vague. Literally it means: They also won't necessarily stay where they are living at this moment, although it is not long ago that they've moved there. Probably it means they wont stay at their current home for too long. Hope it helps.

When reading Dutch it is very easily understood. But listening to a Dutch speaking person, it gets a little difficult. I guess when you have more exposure to listening to Dutch it will get easier. Afrikaans originated from Dutch, so there are a lot of similarities. I'm really not an expert on Dutch at all so I can't give you an exact answer as to how their grammar differ from Afrikaans.

Jy kan sê: 1) Ek stel graag my sussie Nikkie aan jou voor. 2) Mag ek my sussie Nikki aan jou voorstel. 3) Ek stel aan jou voor, my sussie Nikki