Vi gik hele vejen til stationen.

Gik is the past tense of gå, which means to walk or to go on foot.

So Vi gik means we walked.

In this sentence, it refers to a completed action in the past:

• Vi gik hele vejen til stationen = We walked all the way to the station

Because gå is an irregular verb.

Its main forms are:

• at gå = to walk
• går = walk / walks / am walking / are walking
• gik = walked
• gået = walked / gone

So you simply have to learn gik as the past form.

Hele vejen literally means the whole way, but in natural English it often corresponds to all the way.

So in this sentence:

• Vi gik hele vejen til stationen = We walked all the way to the station

It emphasizes that they walked the entire distance rather than taking a bus, train, car, etc.

Vej means road, way, or route.
Vejen is the definite singular form, meaning the way.

Danish often uses the definite form in expressions where English may not focus on the in the same way.
So hele vejen is a fixed, very common expression meaning:

• the whole way
• all the way

Compare:

• en vej = a road / a way
• vejen = the road / the way

In Danish, the definite article is usually attached to the end of the noun.

So:

• station = station
• stationen = the station

This is one of the biggest differences from English. Instead of putting the before the noun, Danish often adds -en, -et, or -ene to the noun.

Examples:

• bog = book
• bogen = the book
• hus = house
• huset = the house

Til usually means to, especially when talking about movement toward a destination.

So:

• til stationen = to the station

It is the natural choice here because the sentence describes movement from one place to another.

Examples:

• Jeg går til skolen = I walk to the school
• Vi kørte til byen = We drove to the city

Yes, this is completely normal word order.

The structure is:

• Vi = subject
• gik = verb
• hele vejen = adverbial expression
• til stationen = prepositional phrase showing destination

So the sentence follows a basic pattern: Subject + verb + adverbial/complement

Danish main clauses often use verb-second word order, and this sentence fits that pattern nicely because the subject comes first and the finite verb comes second.

Yes. That means We have walked all the way to the station or We walked all the way to the station, depending on context.

The difference is mainly one of tense and perspective:

• Vi gik hele vejen til stationen = simple past; a completed event in the past
• Vi har gået hele vejen til stationen = present perfect; often used when the action is relevant now or connected to the present situation

In many situations, both are possible, but gik is the straightforward past narration form.

It can mean both, depending on context.

Very often gå specifically means walk or go on foot.
In this sentence, because the destination is given and the phrase hele vejen is included, the meaning is clearly walked.

Examples:

• Jeg går hjem = I’m walking home / I go home on foot
• Hvordan gik du til stationen? = How did you get to the station on foot?

So here, walked is the best translation.

Yes.

If you say:

• Vi gik til stationen

that simply means:

• We walked to the station

If you say:

• Vi gik hele vejen til stationen

that adds emphasis:

• We walked all the way to the station

So hele vejen is not required for grammar, but it changes the nuance.

No, not in this phrase.

Hel can change form depending on grammar:

• hel
• helt
• hele

But in hele vejen, hele is the correct form used with a definite noun in this kind of expression.

A few examples:

• en hel dag = a whole day
• et helt år = a whole year
• hele dagen = the whole day
• hele vejen = the whole way / all the way

So hele here is exactly what you should expect before a definite noun like vejen.

A careful learner-friendly approximation would be:

vee geek hee-leh vyen til sta-see-oh-nen

A few useful notes:

• Vi sounds roughly like vee
• gik has a short vowel; it is not like English geek, but that approximation can help at first
• vejen is often pronounced more like vyen than as two clearly separate syllables
• stationen has stress roughly on the o syllable: sta-syo-nen or sta-see-oh-nen, depending on how narrowly you describe it

As usual with Danish, actual pronunciation is more reduced than the spelling suggests.

Yes. That is a very important Danish rule.

For example, you could say:

• Hele vejen gik vi til stationen

This is less neutral, but grammatically it shows the rule clearly: the finite verb gik still comes in second position.

So Danish word order is about the verb being second in the clause, not always about the subject being first.

The neutral version is still:

• Vi gik hele vejen til stationen