Jeg kan godt blive til hele kampen, bare jeg når toget hjem bagefter.

Kan godt is a very common Danish combination. Here it does not mean literally can well.

In this sentence, kan godt suggests something like:

• can
• should be able to
• can manage
• sometimes even don’t mind

So Jeg kan godt blive til hele kampen sounds a bit softer and more natural than just Jeg kan blive til hele kampen.

Using only kan would still be grammatical, but kan godt often gives a nuance of yes, that’s possible / that should be fine.

Here blive til is an expression meaning stay for or stay until the end of something.

So:

• blive til hele kampen = stay for the whole match
• blive til kaffen = stay for coffee
• blive til sidst = stay until the end

This is not the same as trying to translate blive word-for-word. Blive can mean become, remain, or stay, and in this expression blive til means stay long enough for / stay through something.

Because Danish normally uses hele + definite noun when talking about a specific whole thing.

So:

• hele kampen = the whole match
• hele dagen = the whole day
• hele filmen = the whole film

The noun is definite, which is shown by the ending:

• kamp = a match
• kampen = the match

So hele kampen is the natural way to say the whole match.

Right — here bare does not mean just.

In this sentence, bare means:

• as long as
• provided that
• so long as

So the second part, bare jeg når toget hjem bagefter, gives the condition for the first part.

This use of bare is very common in spoken and written Danish:

• Du må gerne låne bilen, bare du tanker den bagefter.
• I can stay for the whole match, as long as I catch the train home afterwards.

So think of this bare as a conditional word, not the everyday just.

No. Here når is a verb, not the conjunction when.

It is the present tense of nå, which means:

• reach
• make it in time
• catch (in some contexts)

So:

• jeg når toget = I catch the train / I make the train

This can be confusing because Danish also has når meaning when. The spelling is the same, but the function is different.

In this sentence, it is clearly a verb because it comes after the subject jeg and before the object toget.

Nå toget means catch the train or make the train in time.

It is not just about physically reaching the train. It usually means:

• getting there before it leaves
• managing to take that train

So if you say:

• Jeg når toget
  you mean:
• I’ll make the train
• I’ll catch the train

This verb is also used in other time-related situations:

• Jeg når ikke bussen. = I won’t catch the bus.
• Vi nåede filmen. = We made it in time for the film.

Because hjem is often used as a direction word on its own in Danish.

So:

• hjem = homeward / home
• hjemme = at home

That means:

• tage toget hjem = take the train home
• gå hjem = go home
• køre hjem = drive home

You do not need a preposition like to before hjem.

In this sentence, toget hjem means the train home.

Bagefter means afterwards, after that, or later.

Here it refers to what happens after the match:

• nå toget hjem bagefter = catch the train home afterwards

Putting bagefter at the end is very normal. Danish often places time adverbs like this late in the clause.

You could compare:

• Jeg ringer bagefter. = I’ll call afterwards.
• Vi tager hjem bagefter. = We’re going home afterwards.

So its position here is natural and unremarkable.

Because Danish very often uses the present tense for future meaning when the context makes the future clear.

In this sentence:

• kan
• blive
• når

are all present-tense forms, but the situation is clearly about what will happen later.

This is completely normal in Danish, just like in English when you say things such as:

• I’m leaving tomorrow
• If I catch the train later...

Danish does have ways to be more explicitly future-oriented, but it often doesn’t need them.

Because bare jeg når toget hjem bagefter is a subordinate clause expressing a condition.

In Danish, many writers use a comma before subordinate clauses. This is called start comma.

So you may see:

• Jeg kan godt blive til hele kampen, bare jeg når toget hjem bagefter.

But depending on the comma system being used, you may also see the sentence written without that comma.

So the comma is not about a pause in speech as much as about Danish comma rules.

It has two main parts:

1. Jeg kan godt blive til hele kampen
   This is the main clause.

2. bare jeg når toget hjem bagefter
   This is a conditional clause meaning as long as I catch the train home afterwards.

So the overall pattern is:

• main statement + condition

A very literal structural reading would be:

• I can indeed stay for the whole match, provided that I catch the train home afterwards.

That is a very common Danish way of linking an action with a practical condition.