"Het is laat" is a Dutch equivalent of "It is late."
Specifically, the article/pronoun "het" means "it." The verb "is" means "is." The adjective "laat" means "late".
"Don't be late" is in Dutch "Wees niet te laat".
In the late 1698
the dutch invented it in the mid to late 1800's.
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Dutch settlers founded Paarl in the late 1600's.
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