Lægen lægger en forbinding på hendes håndled.

Lægen means the doctor, while læge means doctor in a general or indefinite sense.

Danish usually adds the definite article to the end of the noun:

• en læge = a doctor
• lægen = the doctor

So Lægen lægger ... means The doctor is putting ...

Because lægger is the present tense of the verb at lægge.

The pattern is:

• at lægge = to put / to lay
• lægger = puts / is putting
• lagde = put / laid
• har lagt = has put / has laid

In Danish, the present tense often ends in -er, so lægen lægger means the doctor puts / is putting.

This is a very common point of confusion.

• at lægge = to lay / to put something somewhere
  
  • it usually takes an object
• at ligge = to lie / to be lying somewhere
  
  • it describes position, not moving something

So here:

• Lægen lægger en forbinding ... = the doctor puts a bandage ...
• En forbinding ligger på bordet = a bandage is lying on the table

A useful shortcut:

• lægge = action of placing
• ligge = state/location afterward

Because forbinding is a common gender noun in Danish, so it takes en.

• en forbinding = a bandage / a dressing
• forbindingen = the bandage / the dressing

Danish nouns are mainly either:

• common gender: take en
• neuter: take et

Unfortunately, noun gender usually has to be learned word by word.

Because Danish normally does not use an article when a noun already has a possessive word like min, din, hans, hendes, vores.

So:

• hendes håndled = her wrist
• not hendes et håndled
• not hendes håndledet

This is the same basic idea as in English: we say her wrist, not her the wrist.

This is a very important Danish grammar point.

Danish uses sin/sit/sine when the possessor is the subject of the same clause.

Here, the subject is lægen (the doctor), but the wrist belongs to her—someone else, not the doctor. So Danish uses hendes.

• Lægen lægger en forbinding på hendes håndled.
  = The doctor puts a bandage on her wrist.
  The wrist belongs to another female person.

If the wrist belonged to the doctor herself, Danish would normally use sit because håndled is a neuter noun:

• Lægen lægger en forbinding på sit håndled.
  = The doctor puts a bandage on her own wrist.

So:

• hendes = her, someone else’s
• sin/sit/sine = his/her/their own

På often means on, and in this sentence it is the natural preposition for placing a bandage or dressing onto a part of the body.

So lægge en forbinding på hendes håndled is the normal way to say that the doctor is applying the bandage to the wrist.

English might sometimes say on her wrist or around her wrist, depending on context. Danish uses på very naturally here for the act of applying it.

Håndled means wrist.

It is made up of:

• hånd = hand
• led = joint

So literally it is something like hand-joint.

This kind of compound noun is very common in Danish. Learning to spot the parts can make vocabulary easier to remember.

The word order is the normal Danish main clause pattern:

• Lægen = subject
• lægger = verb
• en forbinding = object
• på hendes håndled = prepositional phrase

So the structure is:

Subject + Verb + Object + Place/target phrase

That gives:

Lægen lægger en forbinding på hendes håndled.

This is very similar to ordinary English word order: The doctor puts a bandage on her wrist.

The letter æ is a separate Danish vowel, not just a + e.

A rough guide:

• læge sounds approximately like LEH-ye or LEH-guh, depending on accent and how carefully it is spoken
• lægen is roughly LEH-yen

A few useful pronunciation notes:

• æ is a front vowel, somewhat like the vowel in English bed, but not exactly the same
• the g in words like læge/lægen is often softened in pronunciation
• Danish pronunciation is often less phonetic than spelling suggests, so listening to native audio helps a lot

Yes. Forbinding can mean bandage or dressing, depending on context.

In medical contexts, it often refers to the material applied to a wound, not just a simple strip of cloth. So in English, the best translation may vary:

• bandage
• dressing
• sometimes wrap, depending on the situation

So the Danish word is slightly broader than one single fixed English word.