Jeg går rundt i haven om eftermiddagen.

Går is the present tense of gå (to go / to walk).

In Danish, the present tense can cover both:

• an action happening right now: I am walking
• a habitual action: I walk

So Jeg går rundt i haven om eftermiddagen can mean something like:

• I walk around in the garden in the afternoon
• or, depending on context, I’m walking around in the garden in the afternoon

Very often, without extra context, learners should understand it as a normal present-tense statement, and the time phrase helps show whether it is habitual or current.

Rundt means around.

So:

• jeg går = I walk / I go
• jeg går rundt = I walk around

It adds the idea of moving about without one fixed destination. In this sentence, går rundt suggests wandering or moving around inside the garden area, not just walking from one point to another.

In Danish, short adverb-like words such as rundt often come after the verb.

So:

• går rundt = walk around

This is normal Danish word order. English does something very similar:

• walk around
• look up
• sit down

So for an English speaker, this pattern is actually quite familiar.

Danish usually uses i for being in an enclosed area or within a space, and haven means the garden.

So:

• i haven = in the garden

Using på here would sound wrong in standard Danish. English sometimes says in the garden, and Danish matches that closely.

A useful comparison:

• i huset = in the house
• i skoven = in the forest
• i haven = in the garden

Because haven is the definite form: the garden.

In Danish, the definite article is often added as an ending:

• en have = a garden
• haven = the garden

So i haven means in the garden, not in a garden.

This is one of the most important Danish patterns:

• en bil → bilen
• en stol → stolen
• en have → haven

Om eftermiddagen means in the afternoon.

Here:

• om is the preposition used for parts of the day in many time expressions
• eftermiddagen = the afternoon

So literally it is something like about/during the afternoon, but the natural English translation is in the afternoon.

Similar expressions:

• om morgenen = in the morning
• om formiddagen = in the late morning
• om aftenen = in the evening
• om natten = at night / during the night

In this kind of time expression, Danish normally uses the definite form:

• om morgenen
• om eftermiddagen
• om aftenen

So om eftermiddagen is the standard way to say in the afternoon.

This is just a fixed and very common Danish pattern. English does not use the here, but Danish does.

Yes. Danish word order is flexible, and the time phrase can be moved.

For example:

• Jeg går rundt i haven om eftermiddagen.
• Om eftermiddagen går jeg rundt i haven.

Both are correct.

But if you put Om eftermiddagen first, Danish usually uses inversion, so the verb comes before the subject:

• Om eftermiddagen går jeg ... not
• Om eftermiddagen jeg går ...

That is a very important Danish word-order rule.

No, Danish verbs are much simpler than English in this way. The present-tense verb form stays the same for all persons.

So:

• jeg går = I walk
• du går = you walk
• han går = he walks
• vi går = we walk

Unlike English, Danish does not add a special -s form for he/she/it in the present tense.

The infinitive is gå, meaning to go or to walk.

Common forms are:

• at gå = to go / to walk
• går = go/goes / walk/walks
• gik = went / walked
• gået = gone / walked

So in this sentence, går is simply the present-tense form of gå.

• går i haven = walks in the garden
• går rundt i haven = walks around in the garden

Without rundt, the sentence is more neutral. With rundt, it emphasizes movement around the space, often with no single destination.

So rundt makes the image more specific.

Yes, in a normal Danish sentence, the subject is usually stated clearly.

• Jeg = I

So:

• Jeg går ... = I walk ...

Unlike in some languages, Danish does not usually drop the subject pronoun. A full sentence normally needs it.

Yes, a few:

• jeg is often pronounced more like yai / yai-like, not like the spelling suggests.
• går has a vowel sound English speakers may find tricky, and the r affects the vowel.
• rundt ends with a consonant cluster that may be hard to say clearly.
• haven is usually pronounced more smoothly than an English speaker might expect; the v can sound soft.

A rough learner-friendly approximation might be:

• Yai gor run(t) ee ha-ven om ef-ter-mi-da-yen

But this is only approximate. Real spoken Danish is often softer and more reduced than the spelling suggests.