Hendes barnebarn kommer også i morgen, hvis mødet ikke bliver aflyst.

Hendes means her.

Danish has two kinds of possessives in situations like this:

• hans / hendes / deres = someone else’s
• sin / sit / sine = the subject’s own

In this sentence, the subject is barnebarnet understood through barnebarn as the person who kommer. So hendes barnebarn means her grandchild — the grandchild belongs to some woman already mentioned.

If you used sit here, it would have to refer back to the subject of the clause, and that would not make sense in the same way.

So:

• Hendes barnebarn kommer ... = Her grandchild is coming ...

Barnebarn means grandchild.

A useful thing to know is that it is gender-neutral:

• et barnebarn = a grandchild
• it can mean either grandson or granddaughter

So Danish often uses one word where English may be more specific.

It is also a compound word:

• barn = child
• barnebarn = grandchild

Because Danish, like German, very often forms compound nouns as a single word.

So:

• barne + barn becomes barnebarn
• møde can appear inside compounds too, such as mødelokale = meeting room

English often writes these as separate words or with varying spelling, but Danish strongly prefers one-word compounds.

So barnebarn as one word is completely normal.

Danish often uses the present tense to talk about the future when the time is clear from context.

Here:

• kommer = literally comes / is coming
• i morgen = tomorrow

Together, that naturally means:

• is coming tomorrow
• or simply will come tomorrow

This is very common in Danish. English does something similar in some contexts too:

• She arrives tomorrow
• We leave next week

So the present tense here is normal, not a mistake.

This is because Danish main clauses follow the V2 rule: the finite verb usually comes in second position.

In the main clause:

• Hendes barnebarn = first element
• kommer = finite verb in second position
• også = adverb after the verb
• i morgen = time expression

So the structure is:

• subject + finite verb + adverb + time

That is why you get:

• Hendes barnebarn kommer også i morgen

and not something like English word order with also before the verb.

Sometimes yes, but the meaning or emphasis can change.

In this sentence:

• Hendes barnebarn kommer også i morgen = Her grandchild is also coming tomorrow

This usually means the grandchild is one more person who will come tomorrow.

If you moved også, you might emphasize something slightly different. Danish adverb placement can affect focus.

For a learner, the version in the sentence is a very natural default pattern.

I morgen means tomorrow.

It is normally written as two words in modern Danish:

• i morgen

Older spelling or informal spelling like imorgen may be seen, but i morgen is the standard form you should learn and use.

Literally, it comes from a prepositional expression, but as a learner, it is easiest just to memorize i morgen as the normal way to say tomorrow.

Hvis means if.

It introduces a condition:

• hvis mødet ikke bliver aflyst = if the meeting is not cancelled

Use hvis when one thing depends on another.

Examples:

• Hvis det regner, bliver vi hjemme. = If it rains, we stay home.
• Hvis hun ringer, svarer jeg. = If she calls, I answer.

So in your sentence, the grandchild’s coming depends on the meeting not being cancelled.

Because mødet is the definite form: the meeting.

Danish usually adds the definite article to the end of the noun:

• et møde = a meeting
• mødet = the meeting

So:

• hvis mødet ikke bliver aflyst = if the meeting is not cancelled

This is one of the most important features of Danish nouns.

Because subordinate clauses in Danish have different word order from main clauses.

After hvis, you are in a subordinate clause. In subordinate clauses, adverbs like ikke usually come before the finite verb.

So:

• hvis mødet ikke bliver aflyst

Breakdown:

• hvis = if
• mødet = the meeting
• ikke = not
• bliver = becomes / is
• aflyst = cancelled

Compare:

• Main clause: Mødet bliver ikke aflyst.
• Subordinate clause: ... hvis mødet ikke bliver aflyst.

That placement of ikke is very typical and very important.

Bliver aflyst is a passive construction.

It is formed with:

• bliver from blive
• past participle aflyst from aflyse

So:

• aflyse = to cancel
• aflyst = cancelled
• bliver aflyst = is cancelled / gets cancelled

This is a very common way to make the passive in Danish.

Examples:

• Døren bliver åbnet. = The door is opened.
• Toget bliver forsinket. = The train is delayed.
• Mødet bliver aflyst. = The meeting is cancelled.

Yes, that is possible, but it is a different passive form.

Danish has two common passive patterns:

• blive + past participle → bliver aflyst
• -s passive → aflyses

So these are both possible:

• hvis mødet ikke bliver aflyst
• hvis mødet ikke aflyses

In many everyday contexts, bliver aflyst sounds very natural and common.

As a learner, it is useful to recognize both, but the blive + participle form is often easier to understand at first.

Yes.

Just like the main clause uses present tense with future meaning, the if-clause does the same:

• hvis mødet ikke bliver aflyst = if the meeting is not cancelled

Even though the cancellation would happen in the future, Danish normally uses present forms here.

English often does something similar:

• If the meeting isn’t cancelled, ... not
• If the meeting won’t be cancelled, ...

So this part works quite similarly in Danish and English.

Because hvis mødet ikke bliver aflyst is a subordinate clause, and in standard Danish writing it is separated with a comma.

So the sentence is divided into:

• main clause: Hendes barnebarn kommer også i morgen
• subordinate clause: hvis mødet ikke bliver aflyst

The comma helps show that relationship clearly.

A fairly literal breakdown is:

• Hendes = her
• barnebarn = grandchild
• kommer = comes / is coming
• også = also
• i morgen = tomorrow
• hvis = if
• mødet = the meeting
• ikke = not
• bliver aflyst = is cancelled / gets cancelled

So a very literal English version would be:

• Her grandchild comes also tomorrow, if the meeting is not cancelled.

That is not the most natural English phrasing, but it helps show how the Danish sentence is built.

Aflyst is the past participle of aflyse.

So:

• aflyse = to cancel
• aflyser = cancels / is cancelling
• aflyste = cancelled
• aflyst = cancelled

In the sentence, the participle is used in the passive:

• bliver aflyst = is cancelled

It is a good idea to learn verbs in families like this, because it makes forms like bliver aflyst much easier to recognize.