Hvis jeg havde haft mere tid i morges, ville jeg have skyllet glassene, før jeg gik ud.

Because this is the past perfect in Danish.

• havde = the auxiliary verb have in the past tense
• haft = the past participle of have

So havde haft literally matches English had had.

In this sentence, it shows that the speaker is talking about an unreal situation in the past: they did not have more time that morning.

This is the conditional perfect, used for something that would have happened under different past circumstances.

Structure:

• ville = would
• have = have
• skyllet = rinsed

So:

• ville jeg have skyllet glassene = I would have rinsed the glasses

This matches the English pattern would have + past participle.

It is talking about an unreal past situation.

The speaker is imagining a different past:

• If I had had more time this morning, I would have rinsed the glasses

This strongly implies:

• I did not have more time
• I did not rinse the glasses

So the sentence is a counterfactual past condition.

Because Danish is a V2 language in main clauses. That means the finite verb usually comes in the second position.

Here, the sentence begins with the if-clause:

• Hvis jeg havde haft mere tid i morges

After that whole clause, the main clause starts, and the finite verb comes first:

• ville jeg have skyllet glassene

So the order becomes:

• Hvis ..., ville jeg ...

This is very normal in Danish after a fronted clause.

Glassene is the definite plural form of glas.

• et glas = a glass
• glas = glasses
• glassene = the glasses

In Danish, definiteness is often added as an ending instead of using a separate word like the.

So:

• skyllet glassene = rinsed the glasses

Also note that glas is one of those nouns whose plural form is the same as the singular indefinite form.

Skylle usually means to rinse.

So skyllet glassene suggests giving the glasses a rinse, not necessarily fully washing them.

Compare:

• skylle glassene = rinse the glasses
• vaske glassene op / tage opvasken = wash the dishes / do the washing-up

Depending on context, skylle can sound more like a quick rinse than a full clean.

Because mere is the comparative form used with amount nouns like tid.

• meget tid = much/a lot of time
• mere tid = more time

So this works very much like English:

• much time → more time

I morges means this morning and refers to a specific morning in the past, usually the same day.

So here it fits perfectly:

• i morges = this morning

By contrast:

• om morgenen = in the morning / in the mornings

That expression is more general or habitual.

Compare:

• Jeg havde travlt i morges = I was busy this morning
• Jeg drikker kaffe om morgenen = I drink coffee in the morning

It means before I went out or before I left.

• før = before
• jeg gik ud = I went out / I left

In many everyday contexts, gå ud can mean simply go out or leave the house/building.

Here it most likely means the speaker left home before having time to rinse the glasses.

Danish often uses the simple past after før when the sequence is already clear from context.

So:

• før jeg gik ud = before I went out

This is natural and idiomatic.

A more explicitly completed form like før jeg var gået ud is possible in some contexts, but it would usually sound heavier and is not needed here. The timeline is already obvious:

1. the speaker was at home in the morning
2. they went out
3. they are saying they would have rinsed the glasses before that

Not if you want the same meaning.

• Hvis jeg havde mere tid would usually point to an unreal situation in the present or future: If I had more time
• Hvis jeg havde haft mere tid points to an unreal situation in the past: If I had had more time

Because the sentence is specifically about this morning and what did not happen then, the past perfect form havde haft is the correct choice.

Yes, hvis is the normal word for if when introducing a condition.

So:

• Hvis jeg havde haft mere tid ... = If I had had more time ...

That is the standard way to form this kind of conditional sentence in Danish.

If it described a real past situation instead of an unreal one, the grammar would be different.

For example:

• Jeg havde mere tid i morges, så jeg skyllede glassene, før jeg gik ud.
• I had more time this morning, so I rinsed the glasses before I left.

The original sentence uses:

• havde haft and ville have skyllet

Those forms signal that the event is imagined, not real.

It has two main parts:

1. Conditional clause

   • Hvis jeg havde haft mere tid i morges
   • If I had had more time this morning

2. Result clause

   • ville jeg have skyllet glassene, før jeg gik ud
   • I would have rinsed the glasses before I went out

So the full pattern is:

• Hvis + past perfect, ville + have + past participle

That is a very common way to express an unreal past condition in Danish.