Learn Danish: Steg kødet på panden nu. - Fry the meat in the pan now.

In Danish, you give commands using the imperative form, which is just the bare stem of the verb. You find this by taking the infinitive verb stege (to fry) and dropping the final 'e', giving you steg.

Why does the sentence start directly with steg instead of a person doing the action?

Because this sentence is a command. In the imperative mood, you do not use a subject pronoun like 'you'. The sentence always begins directly with the action verb.

Why do kødet and panden have different endings if they both translate to 'the'?

Danish has two grammatical genders that change how 'the' is attached to the end of a noun. Kød (meat) is a neuter word (an et-word), so it takes the ending -et to become kødet. Pande (pan) is a common gender word (an en-word) that already ends in an 'e', so it just adds an -n to become panden.

Why does the Danish sentence say på panden (on the pan) instead of using a word for 'in'?

Prepositions often do not translate exactly word-for-word between English and Danish. In Denmark, you fry food 'on' a pan (på panden) because a pan is viewed as a flat cooking surface rather than a deep container.