Hun drysser sukker over kagen, som om hun allerede arbejder i et bageri.

Danish usually does not use a separate progressive form like English is sprinkling.

So Hun drysser sukker over kagen can mean both:

• She sprinkles sugar over the cake
• She is sprinkling sugar over the cake

The simple present in Danish often covers both a general action and an action happening right now. Context tells you which meaning is intended.

Drysser is the present tense of the verb at drysse, meaning to sprinkle or to scatter lightly.

A few useful forms are:

• at drysse — to sprinkle
• drysser — sprinkles / is sprinkling
• dryssede — sprinkled / was sprinkling
• har drysset — has sprinkled

Here sukker is being used as an uncountable mass noun, like sugar in English.

So Danish normally says:

• drysse sukker over kagen — sprinkle sugar over the cake

You would use sukkeret if you meant the sugar, meaning some specific sugar already known in the conversation:

• Hun drysser sukkeret over kagen — She sprinkles the sugar over the cake

You would normally not say et sukker in this meaning.

With drysse, over is very natural because it suggests spreading something across the surface of something.

So:

• drysse sukker over kagen = sprinkle sugar over the cake

Using på is not impossible in some contexts, but over is the more idiomatic choice here because it emphasizes the motion and distribution of the sugar.

Kagen means the cake, while en kage means a cake.

Danish uses the definite form -en because the sentence is talking about a specific cake, presumably one that is already visible or known in the situation.

Compare:

• Hun drysser sukker over kagen — She sprinkles sugar over the cake
• Hun drysser sukker over en kage — She sprinkles sugar over a cake

The second version is more indefinite and less tied to a specific cake.

Yes. Som om functions as a fixed expression meaning as if or as though.

So in this sentence:

• som om hun allerede arbejder i et bageri
  = as if she already works / is already working in a bakery

This is not a relative som meaning who/which/that. The two words work together as a conjunction.

Because som om hun allerede arbejder i et bageri is a subordinate clause.

The comma in your sentence reflects the traditional Danish start-comma style, where a comma is often placed before a subordinate clause.

So this version is normal:

• Hun drysser sukker over kagen, som om hun allerede arbejder i et bageri.

You may also see Danish written without that comma, depending on comma style:

• Hun drysser sukker over kagen som om hun allerede arbejder i et bageri.

Both styles exist; your sentence uses a correct traditional pattern.

Because after som om, you have a subordinate clause, and subordinate clauses in Danish normally do not use main-clause inversion.

Main clause word order:

• Hun arbejder allerede i et bageri.

Subordinate clause word order:

• ... som om hun allerede arbejder i et bageri

So the subject hun stays before the verb arbejder.

In Danish subordinate clauses, sentence adverbs such as allerede, ikke, nok, and ofte often come before the finite verb.

So:

• ... som om hun allerede arbejder ...

That is normal subordinate-clause word order.

Compare:

• Main clause: Hun arbejder allerede i et bageri
• Subordinate clause: ... som om hun allerede arbejder i et bageri

This difference in adverb placement is a very important part of Danish syntax.

Yes, arbejdede could also be possible, depending on the nuance.

Your sentence uses:

• som om hun allerede arbejder i et bageri

This makes the comparison feel immediate and connected to the present situation: she is acting like someone who already works in a bakery.

A more hypothetical or clearly unreal version could be:

• som om hun allerede arbejdede i et bageri

That can sound a bit more like English as if she already worked in a bakery.

So:

• arbejder = more direct, vivid, present-feeling
• arbejdede = more distanced or unreal-seeming

Both are understandable; the version in your sentence is quite natural.

There are two things going on here:

1. Why i?
Because i means in, and it is a natural preposition when talking about working in that kind of place:

• arbejde i et bageri — work in a bakery

2. Why et?
Because bageri is a neuter noun, so its indefinite article is et, not en.

So:

• et bageri — a bakery
• bageriet — the bakery

Allerede means already.

It adds the idea that her manner seems surprisingly advanced or professional already, as if she has experience sooner than expected.

Without allerede, the sentence would still work:

• Hun drysser sukker over kagen, som om hun arbejder i et bageri.

But allerede strengthens the impression that she seems to have reached that level by now.

A very rough guide for an English speaker:

• hun — roughly hoon, but shorter
• drysser — the y is like German ü or French u
• sukker — roughly SUK-er, though the vowels are more Danish than English
• kagen — the g is soft, not a hard English g
• arbejder — roughly AR-bye-ther, but the d is a soft Danish sound, not a normal English d
• bageri — roughly bay-guh-REE, though again the real Danish vowels are different

The hardest sounds here for most English speakers are:

• the y in drysser
• the soft g in kage/kagen
• the soft d in arbejder

If you want, I can also break the whole sentence down word by word with a more detailed pronunciation guide.