Bowlingkuglerne ligger overalt.

It is the definite plural form of the noun, so it means the bowling balls.

You can break it down like this:

• bowlingkugle = bowling ball
• bowlingkugler = bowling balls
• bowlingkuglerne = the bowling balls

The ending -ne is a very common Danish way to mark a noun as plural + definite.

Because Danish usually writes compound nouns as one word.

So English bowling ball becomes Danish bowlingkugle.

This is very normal in Danish:

• en skolebog = a school book
• et spisebord = a dining table
• en bowlingkugle = a bowling ball

English often uses separate words where Danish prefers one compound word.

The basic form is en bowlingkugle.

Here are the main forms:

• en bowlingkugle = a bowling ball
• bowlingkuglen = the bowling ball
• bowlingkugler = bowling balls
• bowlingkuglerne = the bowling balls

So if you look it up in a dictionary, you would normally look for bowlingkugle.

Because Danish often uses a position verb where English simply uses to be.

In this sentence, ligger is used because the bowling balls are understood as being lying/resting somewhere.

Danish commonly distinguishes between:

• ligge = lie, be lying
• stå = stand, be standing
• sidde = sit, be sitting

English often just says is/are, but Danish is usually more specific about the position of things.

So Bowlingkuglerne ligger overalt sounds natural in Danish in a way that Bowlingkuglerne er overalt usually would not.

Ligger is the present tense of ligge.

• at ligge = to lie
• ligger = lies / are lying

So the sentence is in the present tense.

A useful extra distinction:

• ligge = to be lying, to be in a lying position
• lægge = to lay, to put something down

For example:

• Kuglen ligger på gulvet. = The ball is lying on the floor.
• Jeg lægger kuglen på gulvet. = I put the ball on the floor.

That is a very natural question for English speakers.

In Danish, ligge is often used for things that are resting somewhere without standing upright in a clear way. A ball does not really stand, so ligge is the normal choice.

So even though a bowling ball is round, Danish still treats it as something that ligger.

Overalt is an adverb, and it means everywhere.

In this sentence, it tells you where the bowling balls are.

So the structure is:

• Bowlingkuglerne = subject
• ligger = verb
• overalt = adverb of place

It is very common to put overalt near the end of the sentence like this.

Yes, you could say Overalt ligger bowlingkuglerne, but it changes the emphasis.

• Bowlingkuglerne ligger overalt. = neutral word order
• Overalt ligger bowlingkuglerne. = puts extra focus on everywhere

When Danish starts a sentence with something other than the subject, the verb usually comes next. That is why you get:

• Overalt ligger bowlingkuglerne not
• Overalt bowlingkuglerne ligger

This is the normal V2 word order pattern in Danish.

Danish nouns are not normally capitalized.

Here Bowlingkuglerne has a capital letter only because it is the first word of the sentence.

So in the middle of a sentence, it would normally be written bowlingkuglerne, not Bowlingkuglerne.

Yes, and that is a very useful comparison.

• Bowlingkuglerne ligger overalt. = the bowling balls are everywhere
• Der ligger bowlingkugler overalt. = there are bowling balls everywhere

The first sentence talks about specific bowling balls, already known or identified. The second sentence introduces the existence of bowling balls in different places more generally.

So both are correct, but they do not mean exactly the same thing.