Vores hold konkurrerer mod det andet hold på lørdag.

Vores is the normal modern Danish possessive meaning our.

You may also see vor, vort, and vore, but those are more old-fashioned, formal, poetic, or fixed-expression forms. In everyday modern Danish, learners should usually use vores.

So:

• vores hold = our team

Also, unlike English, Danish does not add an article after a possessive here. You say vores hold, not vores et hold.

Hold means team in this sentence.

It is a neuter noun in Danish, so its basic form is:

• et hold = a team

That matters later in the sentence, because the phrase det andet hold uses the neuter forms det and andet to match hold.

Because hold is a neuter noun: et hold.

In Danish, demonstratives and adjectives must agree with the noun’s gender and number.

So for singular nouns:

• common gender: den anden
• neuter: det andet

Since hold is neuter, you get:

• det andet hold = the other team

If the noun were a common-gender word, you would use den anden instead.

Andet is the neuter singular form of anden, which means other or second, depending on context.

In this sentence, det andet hold most naturally means:

• the other team

It can sometimes feel like the second team, but usually it means the other one out of two relevant teams.

So the idea is:

• our team vs. the other team

This is a normal Danish structure.

When a noun is definite and has an adjective before it, Danish usually uses:

1. a preposed definite article
2. the adjective in the correct form
3. the noun, usually without the suffixed definite ending in this kind of phrase

So:

• det andet hold = literally the other team

Compare:

• et hold = a team
• holdet = the team
• det andet hold = the other team

This is a very common pattern in Danish.

Because Danish, like English, often uses the present tense for a planned or scheduled future event.

So:

• Vores hold konkurrerer mod det andet hold på lørdag
  = Our team is competing against the other team on Saturday

This is very natural Danish.

You could also express future meaning in other ways, but the present tense is common when the context already makes the future clear.

The infinitive is at konkurrere = to compete.

Here are the relevant forms:

• at konkurrere = to compete
• konkurrerer = competes / is competing

In this sentence:

• vores hold konkurrerer = our team competes / is competing

Danish verbs do not change according to person the way English verbs do. So the verb form stays the same with different subjects.

Yes, both mod and imod can mean against, and in many contexts they overlap.

In a sentence about teams or competition, mod is very common:

• konkurrere mod nogen = compete against someone
• spille mod nogen = play against someone

Imod often has a slightly stronger sense of opposition in some contexts, but in everyday usage there is overlap.

For a learner, mod is a very safe and natural choice here.

It is grammatical and understandable, but the most natural choice depends on the situation.

If this is a sports match, Danish often prefers:

• spiller mod = plays against

If it is a broader contest, tournament, or non-game competition, konkurrerer mod works well.

So:

• Vores hold spiller mod det andet hold på lørdag
  sounds very natural for sports.
• Vores hold konkurrerer mod det andet hold på lørdag
  is fine when the focus is competition more generally.

In Danish, days of the week are normally used without an article when referring to a specific upcoming day in time expressions like this.

So:

• på lørdag = on Saturday
• på mandag = on Monday
• på fredag = on Friday

You do not need an article here.

På lørdag usually means the Saturday that is coming up, or the relevant Saturday in context.

It is a time expression telling you when the action happens.

The sentence breaks down like this:

• Vores hold = subject
• konkurrerer = verb
• mod det andet hold = who they are competing against
• på lørdag = when

Placing the time expression at the end is very normal in Danish.

Yes. Danish word order can change depending on what you want to emphasize, but the verb still follows the usual main-clause pattern.

The original sentence is:

• Vores hold konkurrerer mod det andet hold på lørdag.

You can also front the time expression:

• På lørdag konkurrerer vores hold mod det andet hold.

That means the same thing, but it puts more focus on Saturday.

Notice that when på lørdag comes first, the verb konkurrerer must come before the subject vores hold. This is the normal Danish verb-second pattern in main clauses.

Because in Danish, when you have a definite article + adjective + noun structure, the noun often appears without its separate definite suffix.

Compare:

• hold = team
• holdet = the team
• det andet hold = the other team

So even though the phrase is definite, the definiteness is shown by det plus the adjective phrase, not by writing holdet here.

That is a standard Danish pattern.

A rough learner-friendly approximation is:

• VOHR-es hold kon-goo-REHR-er mod deh AN-neth hold paw LOR-dag

A few notes:

• vores is often pronounced more like vores with a soft, reduced ending
• det is often pronounced very lightly, almost like deh
• andet has a soft d sound in normal Danish speech
• lørdag is often pronounced something like LOR-dai / LOR-day depending on accent and speech style

As always, real Danish pronunciation is much softer and more reduced than the spelling suggests.

The plural of hold is also often hold, so the noun itself may not change in form.

You would say:

• vores hold = our team or our teams

That means the noun form alone does not always tell you singular vs. plural. Context does a lot of the work.

If you changed the second phrase to plural definite, it would become something like:

• de andre hold = the other teams

So compare:

• det andet hold = the other team
• de andre hold = the other teams