Efter at flyet er landet, går vi til bagageudleveringen og bagagebåndet.

Efter at introduces a full clause: efter at flyet er landet = after the plane has landed.

A useful distinction is:

• efter
  • noun phrase
    
    • efter landingen = after the landing
• efter at
  • clause
    
    • efter at flyet er landet = after the plane has landed

In everyday Danish, people do sometimes shorten things, but in this sentence efter at is the clear standard way to introduce the clause.

Flyet means the plane, while et fly means a plane.

Danish usually uses the definite form when the thing is specific and already understood from the situation. Here, we are talking about the particular plane we arrived on, so flyet is natural.

Compare:

• et fly = a plane
• flyet = the plane

The definite article is attached to the end of the noun in Danish:

• fly → flyet

Yes. Er landet is a perfect form, meaning something like has landed.

It is made from:

• er = present tense of være (to be)
• landet = past participle of lande (land)

So:

• flyet er landet = the plane has landed

This tells us the landing is completed before the next action happens.

Some Danish verbs, especially verbs of movement or change of state, can use være in the perfect, and lande is often used that way:

• flyet er landet

This is similar to older English patterns like he is gone, and also similar to German or French.

In modern Danish, usage can vary somewhat, and with some verbs you may also hear har in certain contexts. But er landet is very common and natural, especially when the focus is on the resulting state: the plane is now on the ground.

Landet is the past participle of lande.

The verb is:

• infinitive: lande = to land

Its past participle is:

• landet = landed

Many Danish verbs form the past participle with -t or -et, depending on the verb type. Here, lande becomes landet.

So in er landet, landet is the part that carries the meaning landed.

This is because Danish is a verb-second language in main clauses.

When a sentence begins with something other than the subject—here, the introductory clause Efter at flyet er landet—the finite verb comes next, and the subject comes after it.

So the pattern is:

• Efter at flyet er landet, går vi ...

Literally, the structure is:

• introductory element
• finite verb
• subject

If there were no introductory clause, you would say:

• Vi går til bagageudleveringen ...

But once the sentence starts with Efter at flyet er landet, Danish switches to:

• ... går vi ...

Because flyet er landet is a subordinate clause, and subordinate clauses in Danish do not use the same verb-second pattern as main clauses.

So inside the subordinate clause, the normal order is:

• subject + finite verb + participle
• flyet er landet

But in the main clause after the introductory phrase, Danish uses main-clause word order:

• går vi

So the sentence shows two different patterns at once:

• subordinate clause: flyet er landet
• main clause: går vi til ...

This is a very common feature of Danish grammar.

Danish often uses the present tense to talk about future actions when the context makes the timing clear.

So:

• går vi til bagageudleveringen
  can mean
• we go to baggage claim
• or more naturally in English here: we’ll go to baggage claim

Because the first clause already tells us the sequence of events, Danish does not need a separate future marker.

English often prefers will in this kind of sentence, but Danish frequently just uses the present.

Til usually means to or toward and is used for movement to a destination.

So:

• går vi til bagageudleveringen = we go to baggage claim

That makes sense because the sentence describes moving toward a place.

A rough comparison:

• til = to, toward a destination
• i / på = in / on / at, usually more about location than movement toward it

So til is the natural choice with går here.

They are related, but not exactly the same.

• bagageudleveringen = the baggage claim area / baggage reclaim
• bagagebåndet = the baggage belt / carousel / conveyor belt

So bagageudleveringen is the general place where you collect luggage, while bagagebåndet is the actual belt where the suitcases appear.

The sentence mentions both, probably to be extra specific about where we go after landing.

Those endings mark the definite form in Danish.

Here:

• bagageudlevering → bagageudleveringen = the baggage claim
• bagagebånd → bagagebåndet = the baggage belt

Unlike English, Danish usually adds the definite article to the end of the noun instead of putting a separate word before it.

So:

• en bagageudlevering = a baggage claim area
• bagageudleveringen = the baggage claim area

and

• et bagagebånd = a baggage belt
• bagagebåndet = the baggage belt

Yes. The sentence begins with a subordinate clause:

• Efter at flyet er landet

and then comes the main clause:

• går vi til bagageudleveringen og bagagebåndet

In Danish, when a subordinate clause comes first, it is separated from the main clause by a comma. So the comma here is standard and expected.

Yes, that can occur, and you may hear or read it. But efter at is very common and very clear when a full clause follows.

So both are possible in real Danish, but for learners, efter at + clause is a very useful and reliable pattern:

• Efter at flyet er landet ...

It clearly signals: after + complete action/sentence.

Yes. Og means and, and it joins the two noun phrases:

• bagageudleveringen
• bagagebåndet

So the structure is:

• går vi til X og Y

meaning we go to both, or to the area understood through both expressions.

In practice, the two words refer to closely connected parts of the same airport process, so the sentence sounds natural even though English might choose to phrase it a little differently depending on context.