Min datter bliver i børnehaven, indtil jeg henter hende efter arbejde.

Because Danish normally does not use the definite ending when a possessive comes before the noun.

• min datter = my daughter
• datteren = the daughter

So in Danish, min datter is the normal way to say my daughter, not min datteren.

A few more examples:

• min bil = my car
• mit barn = my child
• mine børn = my children

This is different from English, but very regular in Danish.

That is a very common question. Bliver often does mean becomes, but in some contexts it can also mean stays or remains.

In this sentence:

• Min datter bliver i børnehaven
  means My daughter stays/remains in daycare/kindergarten

The idea is that she continues to be there until the speaker picks her up.

Compare:

• Hun bliver lærer = She becomes a teacher
• Hun bliver hjemme = She stays home
• Hun bliver i børnehaven = She stays in daycare/kindergarten

So bliver has more than one common use.

Børnehave is the basic noun, and børnehaven is the definite form.

• børnehave = kindergarten / daycare / nursery school
• børnehaven = the kindergarten / the daycare

So:

• i børnehaven = in/at the kindergarten/daycare

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

Examples:

• en bil = a car → bilen = the car
• en skole = a school → skolen = the school
• en børnehave = a kindergarten/daycare → børnehaven = the kindergarten/daycare

In Danish, some places take i, while others often take på. Unfortunately, this is something you often have to learn with the noun.

With børnehave, i is the normal choice:

• i børnehaven = in/at daycare, in/at kindergarten

Even though English often just says at daycare or at kindergarten, Danish commonly uses i here.

A few similar examples:

• i skole / i skolen
• i kirke
• i byen

So this is a normal Danish preposition choice rather than something you can translate word-for-word from English.

Not exactly. This word can be tricky because school systems differ.

In Danish, børnehave usually refers to a preschool/daycare setting for young children, not necessarily the exact same thing as English kindergarten in every country.

Depending on context, it may be translated as:

• kindergarten
• daycare
• preschool
• nursery school

So the exact English translation depends on the country and situation. But for learning Danish, the important thing is that børnehave is a place where small children stay before formal school.

Because Danish punctuation often places a comma before a subordinate clause.

Here:

• Min datter bliver i børnehaven, indtil jeg henter hende efter arbejde.

The part starting with indtil is a subordinate clause:

• indtil jeg henter hende efter arbejde = until I pick her up after work

In Danish, commas before subordinate clauses are very common and standard.

So the comma here is not unusual at all.

Because after indtil, you have a subordinate clause, and subordinate clauses usually keep the subject before the verb.

So the normal order is:

• indtil jeg henter hende
• conjunction + subject + verb + object

That gives:

• indtil = until
• jeg = I
• henter = pick up
• hende = her

If it were a main clause, Danish often has verb-second word order, but this is not a main clause.

Compare:

• Main clause: Jeg henter hende efter arbejde.
• Subordinate clause: ... indtil jeg henter hende efter arbejde.

Because hende is the object form of she/her, while hun is the subject form.

In this part of the sentence:

• jeg henter hende
• I pick her up

jeg is the subject, and hende is the object.

So:

• hun = she
• hende = her

Examples:

• Hun kommer nu. = She is coming now.
• Jeg ser hende. = I see her.
• Jeg henter hende. = I pick her up.

English also makes this distinction: she vs her.

Henter is the present tense of at hente, which usually means to pick up, to fetch, or to go get.

In this sentence:

• jeg henter hende = I pick her up

This is a very common verb in everyday Danish, especially for children, school, daycare, transport, and collecting things.

Examples:

• Jeg henter børnene klokken fire. = I pick up the children at four.
• Kan du hente kaffe? = Can you get/fetch coffee?
• Hun henter sin søn i skolen. = She picks up her son from school.

Because efter arbejde is a very common idiomatic expression meaning after work.

In Danish, certain time expressions often appear without the definite article in places where English also uses no article:

• efter arbejde = after work
• på arbejde = at work
• i skole = at school / in school

You may also hear efter arbejdet, but that sounds more like after the work or after the job/task is finished, depending on context.

So in this sentence, efter arbejde is the natural everyday choice.

Grammatically, it uses the present tense, but it can refer to a present habit, a routine, or a near-future situation.

Forms in the sentence:

• bliver = present tense
• henter = present tense

But Danish, like English, often uses the present tense for scheduled or normal future events.

So this could mean something like:

• this is what usually happens
• this is today’s plan
• this is the arrangement

That is completely normal.

You could, but it would usually sound more formal or literary.

• bliver i børnehaven = stays in daycare/kindergarten
• forbliver i børnehaven = remains in daycare/kindergarten

In normal spoken Danish, bliver is the natural choice here. Forbliver is understandable, but it sounds less everyday and more formal.

A rough guide is:

• børnehaven ≈ BUR-nuh-hay-vn
  but this is only approximate

A few points:

• ø is a vowel English does not really have
• it is somewhat similar to the vowel in French deux or German schön
• the r affects the vowel sound, so bør is not easy to represent in English spelling
• the final -en in connected speech is often reduced, so it may sound closer to -n

A rough breakdown:

• børne- = child/children-related
• haven = the garden, historically part of the word, though learners usually just memorize børnehave as one unit

If you want, a dictionary with audio is the best way to learn this word accurately.

Yes—several very common Danish patterns appear here:

1. Possessive + noun without definite ending

   • min datter, not min datteren

2. Present tense used naturally for routine/future meaning

   • bliver
   • henter

3. A subordinate clause after a conjunction

   • indtil jeg henter hende ...
   • subject before verb

4. Object pronoun form

   • hende, not hun

5. An idiomatic time expression

   • efter arbejde

So this is actually a very useful sentence because it contains several core patterns of everyday Danish.