Jeg finder min blyant i skuffen i køkkenet.

Find(e) is the infinitive (dictionary form). In a normal present-tense statement with jeg (I), the verb is conjugated:

• infinitive: at finde (to find)
• present: jeg finder (I find / I’m finding)
• past: jeg fandt (I found)
• past participle: har fundet (have found)

Danish present tense often covers both habitual and “right now” meanings, depending on context. So Jeg finder min blyant ... can mean either I find my pencil (in general / as a fact) or I’m finding my pencil (right now). If you want to be very explicit about “right now,” you can add something like lige nu (right now).

Because the possessive min already “determines” the noun. Danish generally does not use an article with a possessive:

• min blyant = my pencil
  Not min en blyant and not min den blyant in normal usage.

The possessive agrees with the gender/number of the noun:

• common gender (en-words): min → min blyant (a pencil is en blyant)
• neuter (et-words): mit → mit hus (house is et hus)
• plural: mine → mine bøger (my books)

I skuffen uses the definite form skuffen = the drawer, implying a specific drawer that’s understood from context (often “the one in my kitchen,” or “the usual drawer”).
If it’s any drawer / not specified, you’d typically say i en skuffe.

In Danish, definiteness is often a suffix on the noun:

• skuffe (drawer) → skuffen (the drawer)
• køkken (kitchen) → køkkenet (the kitchen)

The ending depends on gender:

• common gender: -en (many en-words)
• neuter: -et (many et-words)

Each i introduces a location phrase:

• i skuffen = in the drawer
• i køkkenet = in the kitchen

Together, it means the drawer (that is) in the kitchen. Danish often stacks prepositional phrases like this.

Yes, Danish loves compounds. A very natural alternative is:

• Jeg finder min blyant i køkkenskuffen. = I find my pencil in the kitchen drawer.

Here køkken + skuffe + n becomes køkkenskuffen (the kitchen drawer).

In a simple main clause statement, Danish typically uses V2 word order: the finite verb is in the second position.

• Jeg (position 1) + finder (position 2) + the rest

If you start with something else (like a time phrase), the verb still stays second:

• I dag finder jeg min blyant i skuffen i køkkenet. (Today I find ...)

In everyday speech, jeg is often pronounced something like yai / jai (varies by region and speed). It’s very common for the final g not to sound like an English g.

Ø is a vowel not found in English; it’s similar to the vowel in French deux or German schön (approximate comparisons).
køkkenet is typically pronounced roughly like KUH-ken-uh (with a Danish ø sound in the first syllable and a reduced final -et that often becomes a schwa-like -uh).

Yes, but the meaning/feel changes:

• min blyant = neutral my pencil
• blyanten min = more like my pencil (as opposed to someone else’s) / more emphatic or contrastive

Also note that blyanten min uses the definite noun blyanten (the pencil) plus the possessive after it.

As a rule of thumb:

• i for being inside an enclosed space: i skuffen, i køkkenet
• på for being on a surface: på bordet (on the table)

A drawer and a kitchen are “containers,” so i is the normal choice.