Vi bruger både elkedlen og brødristeren hver morgen, men kaffemaskinen er stadig mest populær.

It means both ... and ....

So:

• både elkedlen og brødristeren = both the electric kettle and the toaster

It is a fixed pairing in Danish. You will often see:

• både A og B = both A and B

If you remove både, the sentence is still grammatical, but the idea of explicitly including both items becomes weaker.

Because they are definite singular nouns of the common gender.

In Danish, the definite article is usually added to the end of the noun instead of being a separate word like English the.

Examples:

• en elkedel = an electric kettle

• elkedlen = the electric kettle

• en brødrister = a toaster

• brødristeren = the toaster

• en kaffemaskine = a coffee maker
• kaffemaskinen = the coffee maker

So the ending -en here is doing the job that the does in English.

Danish often uses the definite form when talking about specific, known things in a shared context.

Here, the sentence is clearly talking about the household appliances that we normally use, so Danish naturally says:

• elkedlen
• brødristeren
• kaffemaskinen

This feels like the kettle, the toaster, the coffee maker that we already know about.

If you used indefinite forms such as en elkedel, it would sound more like you were introducing the items for the first time or speaking less specifically.

Yes. Danish uses compound nouns very freely, just like English.

These are built as:

• elkedel = el

  • kedel
  • el means electricity / electric
  • kedel means kettle

• brødrister = brød

  • rister
  • literally something like bread-roaster / bread-toaster

• kaffemaskine = kaffe

  • maskine
  • coffee machine

This is extremely common in Danish. If you know the parts, you can often guess the meaning of the whole word.

Because hver means each / every, and after hver, Danish normally uses a singular indefinite noun.

So:

• hver morgen = every morning

Not:

• hver morgenen
• hver morgener

This is similar to:

• hver dag = every day
• hver uge = every week
• hver måned = every month

Even though the meaning is repeated, the noun stays singular after hver.

Because stadig is a sentence adverb here, and in a Danish main clause, sentence adverbs usually come after the finite verb.

So the pattern is:

• subject + finite verb + adverb

Here:

• kaffemaskinen = subject
• er = finite verb
• stadig = adverb

So:

• kaffemaskinen er stadig mest populær

This is very typical Danish word order.

A useful comparison:

• Main clause: Kaffemaskinen er stadig populær
• Subordinate clause: ..., at kaffemaskinen stadig er populær

In subordinate clauses, the adverb usually comes before the finite verb.

Here, stadig means still.

It shows that the situation continues to be true. In this sentence, the idea is:

• even though we use both the kettle and the toaster every morning,
• the coffee maker still remains the most popular

So stadig adds a sense of continuation, and often a slight contrast with what came before.

Because Danish often uses mere / mest with longer adjectives instead of adding -ere / -est.

Since populær is a longer adjective, mest populær is very natural and common.

So:

• populær = popular
• mere populær = more popular
• mest populær = most popular

You may occasionally encounter populærest, but mest populær is generally the safer and more natural form for learners.

Because this adjective is being used predicatively, after er, and it agrees with the subject in gender and number, not in definiteness.

Here the subject is:

• kaffemaskinen = singular, common gender

So the adjective form is:

• populær

Compare:

• kaffemaskinen er populær = common gender singular
• huset er populært = neuter singular
• apparaterne er populære = plural

A common beginner mistake is to expect a definite form because the noun is definite, but after er, Danish does not use populære just because the subject is definite.

Because mest populær is part of a predicative expression after er, not an adjective placed before a noun.

After er, Danish normally says:

• kaffemaskinen er mest populær

But if the adjective comes before a noun, then you would use the definite structure:

• den mest populære kaffemaskine

So compare:

• Kaffemaskinen er mest populær = The coffee maker is the most popular
• den mest populære kaffemaskine = the most popular coffee maker

That is why there is no den in the original sentence.

Men means but and introduces a new main clause.

After men, Danish keeps normal main-clause word order. That means the finite verb still comes in the second position of the clause.

So in:

• men kaffemaskinen er stadig mest populær

the structure is:

• kaffemaskinen = first element
• er = second element

This is standard Danish V2 word order.

If you started the clause with some other element, the verb would still have to be second:

• men hver morgen er kaffemaskinen stadig populær

So men does not cancel the normal word-order rules.

Because men is linking two separate main clauses, and Danish normally uses a comma there.

The two parts are:

• Vi bruger både elkedlen og brødristeren hver morgen
• kaffemaskinen er stadig mest populær

Each part could stand on its own as a sentence, so the comma before men is natural and standard.

Because Danish, like English, often uses the present tense for habitual or regular actions.

So:

• Vi bruger ... hver morgen means this is something we do regularly
• er stadig describes the current ongoing situation

The phrase hver morgen is what tells you the action is repeated.

This is completely normal:

• Jeg drikker kaffe hver dag = I drink coffee every day
• Vi tager bussen om morgenen = We take the bus in the morning

So the present tense is exactly what you would expect here.

Yes, absolutely.

That version is still correct:

• Vi bruger elkedlen og brødristeren hver morgen

But adding både makes the pairing more explicit:

• Vi bruger både elkedlen og brødristeren hver morgen

So the difference is mostly one of emphasis:

• without både = simple list
• with både = clearer both ... and ... meaning