Hvad angår skadesomfanget, vil taksatoren undersøge det i morgen.

Hvad angår means as for, regarding, or with regard to.

So Hvad angår skadesomfanget means something like:

• As for the extent of the damage
• Regarding the scope of the damage

It is a fairly formal expression, and it is often used to introduce a topic before saying something more about it.

Yes, hvad normally means what, but in the fixed expression hvad angår, it does not translate word-for-word in a natural way.

Literally, you could think of it as something like what concerns, but in normal English that sounds unnatural. The whole phrase is best learned as one unit:

• hvad angår = as for / regarding

So it is better to recognize the expression as a set phrase rather than trying to translate each word separately.

Danish, like German, often forms compound nouns by joining words together.

Here:

• skade = damage
• omfang = extent, scope
• skadesomfang = extent/scope of damage
• skadesomfanget = the extent/scope of the damage

This kind of compounding is very common in Danish. English usually writes these ideas as separate words, but Danish often combines them into one noun.

The ending -et is the definite article attached to the noun. In Danish, the definite article is often added to the end of the noun instead of appearing as a separate word like the in English.

For example:

• et omfang = an extent
• omfanget = the extent

In skadesomfanget, the final -et makes the whole compound definite:

• skadesomfang = extent of damage
• skadesomfanget = the extent of the damage

So Danish often expresses definiteness by a suffix rather than a separate article.

Taksatoren means the adjuster, the assessor, or the appraiser, depending on context.

In insurance contexts, it often refers to the person who assesses damage and estimates loss or repair costs. So in this sentence, it is probably an insurance damage assessor.

The ending -en is the definite article for a common-gender noun:

• en taksator = an adjuster / assessor
• taksatoren = the adjuster / assessor

This is because Danish normally follows the verb-second rule in main clauses.

The sentence begins with a fronted phrase:

• Hvad angår skadesomfanget

After that, the finite verb must come next:

• vil

Then comes the subject:

• taksatoren

So the order is:

1. fronted element
2. finite verb
3. subject

That gives:

• Hvad angår skadesomfanget, vil taksatoren undersøge det i morgen.

If there were no fronted phrase, a normal order would be:

• Taksatoren vil undersøge det i morgen.

So the word order changes because the sentence starts with Hvad angår skadesomfanget.

In this sentence, vil marks the future, so it works like English will:

• vil undersøge = will investigate / will examine

However, vil can also sometimes express want to depending on context.

For example:

• Jeg vil gå nu can mean I want to go now or I will go now, depending on context.

In your sentence, the meaning is clearly future:

• vil taksatoren undersøge det i morgen = the adjuster will investigate it tomorrow

Because undersøge is the infinitive form, and it follows the modal verb vil.

In Danish, modal verbs such as vil, kan, skal, må, and bør are followed by the infinitive without at.

So:

• vil undersøge = will investigate
• not vil undersøger

Compare:

• Han undersøger det = He investigates / is investigating it
• Han vil undersøge det = He will investigate it

So undersøger is a finite present-tense form, while undersøge is the infinitive required after vil.

Det is a pronoun meaning it, and it refers back to skadesomfanget.

This is very natural in Danish, just as it is in English:

• As for the damage extent, the adjuster will examine it tomorrow.

Even though the noun has already been mentioned, the verb undersøge still needs an object, so Danish uses det to refer back to that topic.

In other words:

• skadesomfanget introduces the topic
• det is the grammatical object of undersøge

This is especially common when an introductory phrase is placed at the beginning of the sentence.

Not naturally in this exact structure.

Since skadesomfanget appears inside the introductory phrase Hvad angår skadesomfanget, it is not serving directly as the object of undersøge. The verb still needs its own object, so det is used.

That is why this structure works:

• Hvad angår skadesomfanget, vil taksatoren undersøge det i morgen.

If you wanted to avoid det, you would usually need to restructure the sentence, for example:

• Taksatoren vil undersøge skadesomfanget i morgen.

So the pronoun is there because of how the sentence is built.

I morgen means tomorrow.

It is a time expression, and Danish often places time expressions toward the end of the clause, especially in neutral sentence order:

• vil taksatoren undersøge det i morgen

That said, Danish word order can be flexible for emphasis. For example, you could also move i morgen earlier in some contexts, but the version here is very natural and neutral.

So the end placement is simply a normal place for a time adverbial.

Yes, it sounds somewhat formal, especially because of Hvad angår and skadesomfanget.

More everyday Danish might use a simpler structure, such as:

• Taksatoren vil undersøge skaden i morgen.
• Med hensyn til skadesomfanget vil taksatoren undersøge det i morgen.

But the original sentence is perfectly correct and natural, especially in written or professional contexts such as insurance, reports, or official communication.

A good strategy is to break it into parts:

• skade
  • omfang
    • -et

So you can think of it as:

• ska-de
• om-fang
• et

Then say it smoothly as one compound.

This is useful with many long Danish compound nouns: identify the smaller familiar pieces first, then put them together. Even if the full word looks intimidating, it is often built from parts you already know.