Hvis piskeriset er blevet væk, kan vi stadig bruge en muffinform og røre dejen med en ske.

Hvis means if and introduces a condition.

In this sentence, Hvis piskeriset er blevet væk ... sets up the condition for what follows: if the whisk has gone missing, then we can do something else.

A native English speaker may wonder about om, but om is usually used for whether, not for this kind of conditional if.

Piskeriset is the definite singular form of et piskeris.

• et piskeris = a whisk
• piskeriset = the whisk

Danish often adds the definite article to the end of the noun instead of using a separate word like the.

So:

• et hus = a house
• huset = the house
• et piskeris = a whisk
• piskeriset = the whisk

Because Danish nouns have two grammatical genders:

• common gender → takes en
• neuter gender → takes et

So in this sentence:

• et piskeris → whisk
• en muffinform → muffin tin / muffin tray
• en ske → spoon

Unfortunately, gender usually has to be learned with each noun. English speakers often want a rule, but in Danish it is mostly vocabulary learning.

Er blevet væk means something like has gone missing or has been lost.

There is a useful difference:

• er væk = is gone / is missing
• er blevet væk = has gone missing / has become lost

So blevet adds the idea of a change of state: it was there before, and now it is missing.

This is very natural Danish. At blive væk is a common expression for to get lost / go missing.

Yes. Blevet is the past participle of blive.

Here the structure is:

• er blevet væk

This is the present perfect form, built with er + past participle.

With blive, Danish often uses er as the auxiliary in this kind of expression.

This is because Danish uses verb-second word order in main clauses.

The sentence begins with a subordinate clause:

• Hvis piskeriset er blevet væk

After that, the main clause starts, and the finite verb must come before the subject:

• kan vi stadig bruge ...

So the pattern is:

• subordinate clause + finite verb
  • subject + rest

Compare:

• Vi kan stadig bruge ... = We can still use ...
• Hvis ..., kan vi stadig bruge ... = If ..., we can still use ...

English does something similar in meaning, but Danish is stricter about this word order.

Because Hvis piskeriset er blevet væk is a subordinate clause, and it is followed by the main clause.

In standard Danish writing, a comma is normally used to separate that introductory clause from the main clause:

• Hvis piskeriset er blevet væk, kan vi ...

This helps show the sentence structure clearly.

Stadig means still.

In this sentence:

• kan vi stadig bruge ... = we can still use ...

It comes after the subject here because of normal adverb placement in a main clause with inversion:

• kan = finite verb
• vi = subject
• stadig = adverb

So the order is very natural Danish.

Compare:

• Vi kan stadig bruge ...
• Hvis ..., kan vi stadig bruge ...

Because it means a muffin tin, not the muffin tin.

Danish uses:

• en muffinform = a muffin tin
• muffinformen = the muffin tin

Here it is indefinite because the sentence means any suitable muffin tin, not one specific previously mentioned one.

It is a compound noun, which is very common in Danish.

It is made from:

• muffin
• form = mold / tin / shape / pan form

Together, muffinform means a baking tray or mold for muffins.

Danish makes compounds very freely, just like German, and more often than English does in spelling.

Because røre depends on the modal verb kan.

After modal verbs such as:

• kan = can
• vil = will / want to
• skal = must / will
• må = may / must

Danish normally uses the infinitive without at.

So:

• kan ... bruge
• kan ... røre

Not:

• kan ... at bruge
• kan ... at røre

This is similar to English, where we say can use, not can to use.

Dejen is the definite form of dej.

• dej = dough / batter
• dejen = the dough / the batter

In context, it refers to the dough or batter already involved in the situation, so Danish uses the definite form.

This is very natural when the item is understood from context, even if it has not been explicitly introduced earlier.

It can mean either, depending on context.

In baking language, dej is often used quite broadly. In English, we may carefully distinguish:

• dough for something thicker
• batter for something more liquid

Danish often still uses dej in both kinds of situations. So even if the English meaning shown to the learner says batter, the Danish word can still be dej.

Med en ske means with a spoon.

• med = with
• en ske = a spoon

The noun is indefinite because it means using a spoon as a tool, not some particular spoon already identified.

This phrase functions as an instrumental phrase: it tells you what you use to stir the batter.

Yes, Danish word order is somewhat flexible, especially with adverbials and prepositional phrases.

For example, you could also say:

• ... og røre dejen med en ske
• ... og med en ske røre dejen (less natural here)
• ... og røre med en ske i dejen (different emphasis and structure)

The original version is the most neutral and natural: first the verb, then the object, then the instrument.

Because both verbs depend on kan.

The structure is:

• kan vi stadig bruge en muffinform
• og røre dejen med en ske

The modal verb kan applies to both actions:

• we can still use a muffin tin
• and stir the batter with a spoon

Danish does not need to repeat kan in the second part.

Not always. Røre can have several meanings depending on context, including:

• to stir something
• to touch / move something
• in some contexts, to affect emotionally

Here, because it is followed by dejen and med en ske, the meaning is clearly to stir.

That is a common thing English speakers need to watch for: one Danish verb may cover several English verbs.

Yes, it sounds natural.

A few especially natural features are:

• Hvis ... , kan vi ... for a practical condition
• er blevet væk for something that has gone missing
• stadig in the middle of the main clause
• compound noun muffinform
• røre dejen med en ske as a normal way to describe stirring by hand

So this is a good example of ordinary, useful Danish.