Efter badet går barnet ind i børneværelset med sin bamse.

Danish often puts a time expression first, just like English can do with After the bath, ....

When a non-subject comes first in a Danish main clause, the finite verb still has to stay in second position. That is why you get:

• Efter badet = first slot
• går = second slot
• barnet = after the verb

So Danish word order here follows the common V2 rule: the verb comes second in main clauses.

Because Danish main clauses use verb-second word order.

If the sentence began with the subject, you would say:

• Barnet går ind i børneværelset med sin bamse.

But when Efter badet is moved to the front, the verb must come right after it:

• Efter badet går barnet ind i børneværelset med sin bamse.

So the subject moves after the verb. This is completely normal in Danish.

Badet is the definite form of bad.

• et bad = a bath
• badet = the bath

In Danish, the definite article is usually added to the end of the noun:

• en bog → bogen
• et hus → huset
• et bad → badet

After efter, both definite and indefinite forms can appear depending on meaning, but here Efter badet means after the bath, referring to a specific bath.

Barnet is the definite form of barn.

• et barn = a child
• barnet = the child

Again, Danish usually marks definiteness with an ending rather than a separate word like the.

So barnet means a specific child, not just any child.

Danish, like English, often makes compound nouns, but Danish usually writes them as one word.

• børn = children
• værelse = room
• børneværelse = children’s room / child’s room
• børneværelset = the children’s room / the child’s room

English often separates words more, but Danish strongly prefers compounds written together.

Ind i shows movement into something.

• i alone often describes location: in
• ind i describes direction: into

So:

• Barnet er i børneværelset = The child is in the bedroom
• Barnet går ind i børneværelset = The child goes into the bedroom

The ind adds the idea of entering.

Går literally means walks/goes, and in many contexts it can simply mean goes.

In this sentence, it usually suggests actual movement on foot, but in natural English we might still translate it as goes into rather than walks into, depending on context.

So går is the present tense of gå:

• at gå = to walk / to go
• går = walks / goes

Because Danish uses sin/sit/sine as a reflexive possessive when the possessor is the subject of the clause.

Here, the subject is barnet, and the teddy bear belongs to that same child, so Danish uses:

• sin bamse = his/her own teddy bear

If you said hans bamse or hendes bamse, it would normally suggest that the teddy bear belongs to someone else, not the subject.

This is one of the most important differences for English speakers learning Danish.

The form of the reflexive possessive agrees with the noun being possessed, not with the owner.

• sin is used with common gender nouns
• sit is used with neuter nouns
• sine is used with plural nouns

Since bamse is a common gender noun (en bamse), you use:

• sin bamse

Compare:

• sin bog = his/her own book
• sit værelse = his/her own room
• sine sko = his/her own shoes

Because the possessive already makes the noun definite enough.

In Danish, you normally do not combine a possessive like min, din, sin with the suffixed definite article.

So you say:

• min bog = my book
• sin bamse = his/her own teddy bear

Not:

• min bogen
• sin bamsen

This is similar to English, where we say my book, not my the book.

It most naturally means the child goes in with the teddy bear — usually implying the child is carrying it or has it along.

The preposition med means with, and here it attaches naturally to the whole action:

• går ... med sin bamse = goes ... with his/her own teddy bear

In real context, it could mean slightly different things, but the basic idea is that the teddy bear accompanies the child.

Some Danish compounds use a special stem form that does not look exactly like the basic singular noun.

Here:

• barn = child
• børn = children
• børneværelse = child’s room / children’s room

This compound uses børne-, which is a very common combining form related to børn. You will see it in other words too, such as:

• børnebog = children’s book
• børnehave = kindergarten
• børnetøj = children’s clothes

So this is a normal compound pattern you just get used to.

Both are possible, but they differ in emphasis.

• Efter badet går barnet ind i børneværelset ... puts the time frame first: After the bath, ...
• Barnet går ind i børneværelset ... efter badet starts with the child and leaves the time information until the end.

The first version is often a bit more natural when the timing is important or when you are setting the scene.

Yes, especially these:

• ø in børne-: a front rounded vowel that English does not really have
• æ in værelse: somewhat like the vowel in cat, but not exactly the same
• the soft or reduced sounds in longer words like børneværelset

A few rough hints:

• går sounds roughly like gor, but not exactly
• barnet is roughly BAR-neth with a soft final -et
• bamse is roughly BAM-suh
• børneværelset is much harder and usually needs listening practice rather than spelling-based guessing

For Danish pronunciation, hearing native audio is much more useful than relying on English-style phonetic approximations.