Min mor stryger skjorterne i stuen, og strygejernet bliver varmt på få minutter.

Min mor is the normal way to say my mother in Danish.

A few useful patterns:

• min mor = my mother
• moren = the mother
• moren min = my mother, but this word order is more common in Norwegian than in standard Danish

In Danish, possessives like min, din, hans, hendes usually come before the noun:

• min bil = my car
• min skjorte = my shirt

So Min mor is exactly what you would expect here.

Here stryger means irons.

The verb is at stryge, and it can have several meanings depending on context, including:

• to iron
• to stroke
• to glide
• in some expressions, even to rush or speed

In this sentence, because we also have skjorterne and strygejernet, the meaning is clearly to iron.

So:

• Min mor stryger skjorterne = My mother irons the shirts

Skjorterne is the definite plural form, meaning the shirts.

Danish often adds the definite article as an ending instead of using a separate word like English the.

For skjorte:

• en skjorte = a shirt
• skjorten = the shirt
• skjorter = shirts
• skjorterne = the shirts

So:

• stryger skjorter = irons shirts / is ironing shirts
• stryger skjorterne = irons the shirts

The sentence uses skjorterne because it refers to specific shirts.

Because Danish usually expresses definiteness by adding an ending to the noun.

Examples:

• en stol = a chair

• stolen = the chair

• et hus = a house

• huset = the house

• en skjorte = a shirt

• skjorten = the shirt

• et strygejern = an iron
• strygejernet = the iron

So instead of saying a separate word for the, Danish often attaches it to the noun.

Danish often forms compound nouns by joining words together.

Here:

• stryge- comes from at stryge = to iron
• jern means iron

So:

• et strygejern = an iron
• strygejernet = the iron

This is very common in Danish. English sometimes writes similar ideas as two words, but Danish often prefers one compound word.

Other examples:

• et soveværelse = a bedroom
• en vaskemaskine = a washing machine

I stuen means in the living room.

Here:

• i = in
• stuen = the living room

The noun is in the definite form:

• en stue = a living room / room
• stuen = the living room

So i stuen literally means in the living room.

This is a very common structure in Danish:

• i huset = in the house
• på bordet = on the table
• i bilen = in the car

Og simply means and, and it joins the two clauses:

• Min mor stryger skjorterne i stuen
• strygejernet bliver varmt på få minutter

Danish uses og much like English and.

So the sentence structure is straightforward:

• clause 1 + og
  • clause 2

Because bliver varmt means becomes warm / gets warm, while er varmt means is warm.

Compare:

• Strygejernet er varmt = The iron is warm
• Strygejernet bliver varmt = The iron gets warm / becomes warm

In this sentence, the focus is on the change over time, so bliver varmt is the natural choice.

Because varm is the adjective, and here it agrees with a neuter noun: et strygejern.

Danish adjective agreement often works like this:

• en varm skjorte = a warm shirt
• et varmt strygejern = a warm iron

Since strygejern is a common noun of et-gender:

• et strygejern
• therefore: varmt

That is why the sentence says bliver varmt.

På få minutter means in a few minutes or within a few minutes.

Breakdown:

• på here is used in a time expression
• få = few
• minutter = minutes

So:

• på få minutter = in a few minutes

This use of på is common in Danish for how long something takes:

• Han gjorde det på en time = He did it in an hour
• Maden er klar på ti minutter = The food is ready in ten minutes

Få is a determiner meaning few, and in this expression it stays the same before the plural noun minutter.

So:

• få minutter = a few minutes

It does not take extra plural marking itself in this structure. The plural is shown on the noun:

• minut = minute
• minutter = minutes

Yes. The word order is very normal.

First clause:

• Min mor = subject
• stryger = verb
• skjorterne = object
• i stuen = place

Second clause:

• strygejernet = subject
• bliver = verb
• varmt = adjective/complement
• på få minutter = time expression

So both clauses follow the common Danish pattern where the finite verb comes early, usually after the subject in a main clause.

Grammatically, i stuen is attached most naturally to the first clause:

• Min mor stryger skjorterne i stuen

That means the most likely reading is that the mother is ironing the shirts in the living room.

The second clause begins after og, so i stuen is not normally understood as belonging to strygejernet bliver varmt unless the context strongly suggests it.

Yes. Stryger is the present tense form of at stryge.

Like English simple present, Danish present tense can sometimes be translated in more than one way depending on context:

• Min mor stryger skjorterne = My mother irons the shirts
• Min mor stryger skjorterne = My mother is ironing the shirts

The exact English translation depends on whether the sentence describes a habit or something happening now. Danish does not always make that distinction as explicitly as English does.

Here are the main forms:

• min = my
• mor = mother
• at stryge = to iron
• en skjorte = a shirt
• en stue = a living room
• og = and
• et strygejern = an iron
• at blive = to become / get
• varm = warm
• få = few
• et minut = a minute

This is useful because the sentence contains several inflected forms:

• stryger from at stryge
• skjorterne from en skjorte
• stuen from en stue
• strygejernet from et strygejern
• bliver from at blive
• varmt from varm
• minutter from et minut