Folkene i vores kvarter går til metroen om morgenen.

Folk often means people in a general or collective sense.

• Folk = people, people in general
• folkene = the people, a specific group of people

In this sentence, the speaker is talking about a particular group: the people in our neighborhood. That is why folkene is natural here.

Also, folk is a slightly special noun in Danish, because it is often used as a collective word rather than as a regular countable noun.

Both words can relate to people, but they are not used in exactly the same way.

• folk is the everyday word for people
• mennesker means human beings / people, and can sound more literal, formal, or emphatic

So folkene i vores kvarter sounds natural for ordinary everyday speech.
Menneskene i vores kvarter is possible, but it sounds heavier and less idiomatic in a simple sentence like this.

In Danish, a possessive word like min, din, hans, vores normally replaces the article.

So you say:

• vores kvarter = our neighborhood
• not det vores kvarter

This works the same way as in English:

• our neighborhood
• not the our neighborhood

Also, kvarter is a neuter noun: et kvarter. But when a possessive is used, you do not keep et.

I usually means in.

So i vores kvarter literally means in our neighborhood.

Here it describes which people we are talking about: the people who belong to or live in that neighborhood. It does not have to mean they are physically standing there at that moment. It is just identifying the group.

Til marks direction or destination, so here it works like English to.

• går til metroen = go/walk to the metro
• går i metroen would mean go/walk in the metro
• går med metroen is not the normal way to say take the metro

So til is important because it shows movement toward the metro.

The most direct reading is that they go/walk to the metro.

Because the verb is går, the sentence strongly suggests movement on foot to the metro station or entrance.

If you wanted to say that they use the metro as transport, Danish would often say:

• Folkene i vores kvarter tager metroen om morgenen.

So:

• går til metroen = go/walk to the metro
• tager metroen = take the metro

Danish usually puts the definite article at the end of the noun.

• en metro = a metro
• metroen = the metro

That -en is the definite ending.

In this sentence, metroen refers to a specific, known metro system or metro station in context, so the definite form is used.

Om morgenen is a very common Danish expression for in the morning, especially when talking about habits or repeated actions.

The pattern is:

• om morgenen = in the morning
• om aftenen = in the evening
• om natten = at night

So in this sentence, om morgenen means this happens as a regular morning activity.

This is a very important difference.

• om morgenen = in the morning, generally / as a habit
• i morges = this morning

So the original sentence sounds like a general statement about what people in the neighborhood usually do.

If you said:

• Folkene i vores kvarter gik til metroen i morges

that would mean they did it this morning, on one specific occasion.

The basic structure is:

• Folkene i vores kvarter = subject
• går = finite verb
• til metroen = destination
• om morgenen = time expression

So the sentence follows normal main-clause word order with the subject first.

Danish is a V2 language, which means the finite verb normally comes in the second position in a main clause. That is why går comes right after the subject phrase.

For example, if you move the time phrase to the front, the verb still stays in second position:

• Om morgenen går folkene i vores kvarter til metroen.

Notice that the subject then moves after the verb.