Hvis jeg glemmer min madpakke, køber jeg yoghurt og frugt i kiosken ved stationen.

Because Danish main clauses normally follow the verb-second rule.

The first part, Hvis jeg glemmer min madpakke, is a subordinate clause introduced by hvis. After that comes the main clause. In a Danish main clause, the finite verb must come in the second position, so you get:

• Hvis jeg glemmer min madpakke, køber jeg yoghurt ...

not:

• Hvis jeg glemmer min madpakke, jeg køber ...

A useful pattern is:

• Hvis + clause, verb + subject + ...

Examples:

• Hvis det regner, bliver jeg hjemme.
• Hvis du har tid, kommer vi senere.

So køber jeg is the normal and correct Danish order here.

Hvis means if.

It introduces a condition:

• Hvis jeg glemmer min madpakke ... = If I forget my packed lunch ...

It is used much like English if in conditional sentences.

A few examples:

• Hvis jeg har penge, køber jeg kaffe. = If I have money, I buy coffee / I’ll buy coffee.
• Hvis du kommer i morgen, kan vi mødes. = If you come tomorrow, we can meet.

So in this sentence, hvis sets up the situation that causes the action in the main clause.

Danish often uses the present tense in conditional sentences when talking about something general, repeated, or quite natural in the future.

So:

• Hvis jeg glemmer min madpakke, køber jeg yoghurt og frugt ...

can mean something like:

• If I forget my packed lunch, I buy yoghurt and fruit ...
• or more naturally in English: If I forget my packed lunch, I’ll buy yoghurt and fruit ...

This is similar to English, where the if-clause also often uses the present:

• If I forget my lunch, I buy something
• If I forget my lunch, I’ll buy something

In Danish, the present tense can cover both a habitual meaning and a near-future meaning depending on context.

Madpakke is a very common Danish word. It means a packed lunch, especially food brought from home, often to school or work.

It is a compound word:

• mad = food
• pakke = package / pack

So literally it is something like a food pack, but the natural English meaning is packed lunch.

In Danish culture, madpakke is a very everyday word, especially for sandwiches, rye bread, fruit, and other simple lunch items packed from home.

Because madpakke is a common gender noun in Danish:

• en madpakke

For singular possessives, the form depends on the noun’s gender:

• en-words take min
• et-words take mit

So:

• en madpakke → min madpakke
• et hus → mit hus

That is why min madpakke is correct.

Because yoghurt and frugt are being used in a general, non-counted way here.

Danish often leaves out the indefinite article when talking about:

• mass nouns
• food in a general quantity
• plural/general items

So:

• køber jeg yoghurt og frugt = I buy yoghurt and fruit

This sounds natural because the speaker is not focusing on one specific yoghurt or one specific fruit item, but just on buying some food.

If you wanted to be more specific, you could add words such as:

• en yoghurt
• noget frugt
• en yoghurt og et æble

But in the original sentence, the zero article is normal and natural.

Danish often uses i where English might use at in some shop-related expressions.

So:

• i kiosken literally means in the kiosk
• but in context it often corresponds to English at the kiosk or simply from the kiosk

This is common with places such as shops or buildings:

• i supermarkedet = at/in the supermarket
• i banken = at/in the bank
• i kiosken = at/in the kiosk

So even if English might prefer at the kiosk, Danish naturally says i kiosken.

The ending -en is the definite article for many common-gender nouns in Danish.

So:

• en kiosk = a kiosk
• kiosken = the kiosk

and:

• en station = a station
• stationen = the station

In this sentence:

• i kiosken = in/at the kiosk
• ved stationen = by the station

Danish usually adds definiteness as a suffix, unlike English, which uses a separate word the.

Ved usually means by, near, or next to, depending on context.

So:

• ved stationen = by the station / near the station

It tells you where the kiosk is:

• i kiosken ved stationen = in/at the kiosk by the station

This is a very common way to describe location in Danish:

• huset ved skoven = the house by the forest
• cafÉen ved torvet = the café by the square

So ved is a useful preposition for something located close to a known place.

Because Danish, like English, normally uses og once to join the last two items in a simple list.

So:

• yoghurt og frugt = yoghurt and fruit

If there were more items, you could say:

• yoghurt, frugt og brød

This works just like English:

• yoghurt, fruit and bread

So there is nothing special happening here; it is just the normal way to join nouns.

It can be understood either way, depending on context, but it most naturally sounds like a habitual or typical action:

• If I forget my packed lunch, I buy yoghurt and fruit at the kiosk by the station.

That sounds like something the speaker usually does.

However, Danish present tense can also be used for a future consequence, so in the right context it could also mean:

• If I forget my packed lunch, I’ll buy yoghurt and fruit ...

If the speaker wanted to make the future meaning more explicit, they might say:

• Hvis jeg glemmer min madpakke, vil jeg købe yoghurt og frugt ...

But the original sentence is perfectly natural as it stands.

A helpful way is:

• Hvis jeg glemmer min madpakke
  = if I forget my packed lunch

• køber jeg yoghurt og frugt
  = I buy yoghurt and fruit

• i kiosken ved stationen
  = at the kiosk by the station

So the full structure is:

• Condition: Hvis jeg glemmer min madpakke
• Main action: køber jeg yoghurt og frugt
• Place: i kiosken ved stationen

Breaking Danish sentences into these pieces often makes word order much easier to understand.