Barnet vil tegne en blomst med en rød farveblyant.

Barnet means the child.

In Danish, the definite article is often added to the end of the noun instead of being a separate word. So:

• et barn = a child
• barnet = the child

The noun barn is a neuter noun, so its definite ending is -et.

Vil is the present tense of ville, and it often means wants to or will / is going to, depending on context.

So Barnet vil tegne ... can mean:

• The child wants to draw ...
• sometimes also The child will draw ...

In everyday language, vil often expresses intention or willingness. The exact English translation depends on context.

After modal verbs in Danish, you normally use the infinitive without at.

Common modal verbs include:

• kan = can
• skal = shall / must / will
• må = may / must
• vil = want to / will

So:

• Barnet vil tegne = The child wants to draw

Not:

• Barnet vil at tegne

That would be ungrammatical in standard Danish.

Tegne usually means to draw.

It can also sometimes mean to sketch or even to sign up for / subscribe to in other contexts, but in this sentence it clearly means to draw because of en blomst and med en rød farveblyant.

Because blomst is a common gender noun in Danish.

Danish has two grammatical genders:

• common gender → takes en
• neuter gender → takes et

So:

• en blomst = a flower
• blomsten = the flower

You simply have to learn the gender of each noun.

En blomst means a flower, so it is indefinite.

If you said blomsten, that would mean the flower, referring to a specific flower already known from the context.

So:

• tegne en blomst = draw a flower
• tegne blomsten = draw the flower

Here med means with, showing the instrument used to do the action.

So:

• med en rød farveblyant = with a red colored pencil

It tells us what the child is using to draw.

It describes farveblyant, not blomst.

So the sentence means the child is drawing a flower using a red colored pencil, not necessarily drawing a red flower.

If you wanted to say a red flower, you would say:

• en rød blomst

But here the structure is:

• en blomst = a flower
• med en rød farveblyant = with a red colored pencil

Because farveblyant is a common gender noun, and adjectives match the noun’s gender and number.

For an indefinite singular common gender noun:

• en rød farveblyant

For an indefinite singular neuter noun, you would usually add -t to the adjective:

• et rødt hus = a red house

So rød is correct here because farveblyant takes en.

Yes. Danish very often forms compound nouns as one word.

So:

• farve = color
• blyant = pencil
• farveblyant = colored pencil

This is very normal in Danish. English often writes similar ideas as two words, but Danish usually combines them.

Because there are two separate indefinite singular nouns:

• en blomst = a flower
• en rød farveblyant = a red colored pencil

Each noun phrase needs its own article.

So the sentence contains:

1. the thing being drawn: en blomst
2. the tool used: en rød farveblyant

The sentence follows normal Danish main-clause word order:

• Barnet = subject
• vil = finite verb
• tegne = infinitive
• en blomst = object
• med en rød farveblyant = prepositional phrase

So the pattern is:

Subject + finite verb + infinitive + object + other information

This is very common in Danish main clauses.

Yes, but the meaning changes slightly.

• Barnet vil tegne ... = The child wants to draw / will draw ...
• Barnet tegner ... = The child is drawing / draws ...

So vil tegne expresses intention, willingness, or future meaning, while tegner describes the action more directly as present.

Not exactly.

Farveblyant usually means colored pencil. A crayon is a different object in English, and Danish would usually use another word depending on the type, such as voksfarve or something more specific.

So in this sentence, farveblyant is best understood as colored pencil.