Sikke nogle flotte boller der ligger på bagepladen nu!

Sikke introduces an exclamation of surprise, admiration, or strong feeling. It is very common in Danish for sentences like:

• Sikke en bil! = What a car!
• Sikke nogle flotte boller! = What lovely buns!

So sikke is not just a normal word you translate one-for-one. It helps create the whole exclamatory tone.

Yes, nogle usually means some, but in this pattern it helps build the exclamation:

• Sikke nogle flotte boller!

This sounds a bit like What some lovely buns! in literal English, but more naturally What lovely buns! or What a lot of lovely buns!

It emphasizes that we are talking about a plural set of things. You can also hear:

• Sikke flotte boller!

That is also correct, but sikke nogle + plural noun is a very common and natural pattern.

Because boller is plural, and the adjective has to agree with it.

The adjective flot changes like this:

• en flot bolle = one nice bun
• flotte boller = nice buns

So the -e form is used for plural here.
Also, flotter would mean nicer / more beautiful, so that would be the comparative, not the basic form.

Not here. In this sentence, der is not the locational there.

Here der introduces a relative clause:

• boller der ligger på bagepladen = buns that are lying on the baking tray

So der works a bit like that / which / who when it is the subject of the relative clause.

A useful way to see it is:

• Sikke nogle flotte boller
  • der ligger på bagepladen nu

The second part describes which buns we are talking about.

Danish often prefers a position verb where English would simply use be.

Here ligger means lie / be lying / be resting. Since buns are physically resting on a tray, ligger sounds very natural.

Danish does this a lot:

• things on a surface often ligger
• upright things often står
• people or things seated/attached can sidder

So der ligger på bagepladen is more vivid and natural than a plain er på bagepladen.

Because Danish usually puts the definite article at the end of the noun as a suffix.

• en bageplade = a baking tray
• bagepladen = the baking tray

So:

• på bagepladen = on the baking tray

You only use a separate word like den in certain structures, for example:

• på den varme bageplade = on the hot baking tray

Nu means now, at the moment, or as things are now.

In this sentence, it adds a sense of the immediate situation:

• Sikke nogle flotte boller der ligger på bagepladen nu!

It suggests something like: Just look at them now or Now there are some lovely buns on the tray!

So nu is not strictly necessary for the grammar, but it adds time and immediacy.

That is a very natural place for it in an exclamation like this.

Danish word order is flexible enough that small words like nu can move, but the final position often sounds conversational and expressive here.

Putting nu at the end gives it a slight punch:

• ... på bagepladen nu!

That makes it feel like the speaker is reacting to the scene right now.

Yes, it is normal for an exclamation with sikke.

A regular statement might be:

• Der ligger nogle flotte boller på bagepladen nu.
  = There are some lovely buns lying on the baking tray now.

But with sikke, Danish often starts with the exclamatory noun phrase:

• Sikke nogle flotte boller ...

and then adds a clause describing them:

• ... der ligger på bagepladen nu!

So it is not built like a plain statement; it is built like an emotional reaction.

Because modern Danish often omits the comma before a subordinate or relative clause.

So this is normal:

• Sikke nogle flotte boller der ligger på bagepladen nu!

You may also see commas in some Danish writing traditions, but the version without the comma is perfectly standard in modern usage.