Plæneklipperen står i garagen ved siden af trillebøren.

In Danish, the definite article is often attached to the end of the noun instead of being a separate word.

• en plæneklipper = a lawnmower
• plæneklipperen = the lawnmower

And:

• en trillebør = a wheelbarrow
• trillebøren = the wheelbarrow

So -en here means the.

Garage is a common-gender noun, but because it already ends in -e, the definite singular often becomes -n rather than -en.

So:

• en garage = a garage
• garagen = the garage

This is a normal pattern with many common-gender nouns ending in -e.

Danish often uses position verbs where English would simply use is.

Here:

• står = stands
• but in natural English, we often translate it as just is

Danish commonly distinguishes between:

• står = standing/upright
• ligger = lying/horizontal
• sidder = sitting
• er = is/exists/is generally

A lawnmower is thought of as something standing upright in the garage, so står sounds natural.

Ved siden af means next to or beside.

In this sentence:

• ved siden af trillebøren = next to the wheelbarrow

It is a fixed expression, so it is best learned as a whole phrase.

Even though af often means of or from in other contexts, in ved siden af you should treat the whole expression as one unit meaning beside/next to.

Because i means in, and a garage is an enclosed space.

So:

• i garagen = in the garage

Danish uses i for being inside something.
På usually means on, or sometimes at with certain places, but not for being physically inside a garage.

The sentence follows normal Danish main-clause word order:

• Plæneklipperen = subject
• står = verb
• i garagen = place
• ved siden af trillebøren = more location detail

So the structure is basically:

Subject + verb + adverbial/place information

Danish is a V2 language, which means the finite verb normally comes in the second position in main clauses. Since the subject comes first here, the verb comes right after it.

Yes. Danish often moves place information to the front for emphasis.

For example:

• I garagen står plæneklipperen ved siden af trillebøren.

That still means the same thing, but now i garagen is emphasized a bit more.

Notice that the verb still stays in second position:

• I garagen = first element
• står = second element

Yes. Danish makes compound nouns very freely.

Plæneklipper is made from:

• plæne = lawn
• klipper = cutter/mower

Together, plæneklipper means lawnmower.

In Danish, compound nouns are usually written as one word, unlike English, where similar expressions may be one word, two words, or hyphenated.

All three nouns here are common gender nouns, which is why they use en in the indefinite form.

• en plæneklipper
• en garage
• en trillebør

Their definite singular forms are:

• plæneklipperen
• garagen
• trillebøren

Danish has two grammatical genders:

• common gender
• neuter

These nouns are all common gender.

They are two important Danish vowels:

• æ in plæne is roughly like the vowel in English cat, but the exact Danish sound is not identical.
• ø in trillebøren is a rounded vowel that English does not really have. To approximate it, say something like uh/er while rounding your lips.

Very rough approximations:

• plæneklipperen ≈ PLEH-ne-kli-per-en
• trillebøren ≈ TRIL-le-bur-en with rounded lips on the ø

These are only approximations, but they can help at first.

Because Danish usually adds definiteness directly to the noun.

So instead of:

• the lawnmower
• the garage
• the wheelbarrow

Danish uses:

• plæneklipperen
• garagen
• trillebøren

A separate definite word like English the is usually not needed in simple cases like this.

No. The sentence most naturally means that the lawnmower is in the garage, and within the garage it is next to the wheelbarrow.

So the location works like this:

• main location: i garagen
• more precise position: ved siden af trillebøren

In other words, both objects are understood to be in the garage.

Yes, but whether you should translate it literally depends on the context.

• Literal: The lawnmower stands in the garage next to the wheelbarrow.
• More natural English: The lawnmower is in the garage next to the wheelbarrow.

When learning Danish, it is useful to notice that står is really there, even if English often smooths it out to is.