Sorteringsguiden viser sorteringsmærket for spraydåserne.

Because Danish normally writes compound nouns as a single word.

Here, Sorteringsguiden is built from:

• sortering = sorting
• guide = guide

So:

• sorteringsguide = sorting guide
• sorteringsguiden = the sorting guide

English often keeps noun combinations separate, but Danish usually joins them.

That -s- is a linking sound used in many Danish compounds.

So:

• sortering
  • guide → sorteringsguide
• sortering
  • mærke → sorteringsmærke

It is not the same as the English possessive 's. It does not mean possession here. It is just a common way to connect parts of a compound noun in Danish.

In Danish, the definite article is usually added to the end of the noun instead of standing as a separate word.

In this sentence:

• guiden = the guide
• mærket = the label/mark
• dåserne = the cans

So Danish often says:

• guide + en → guiden
• mærke + t / et → mærket
• dåser + ne → dåserne

A separate word like den/det/de is usually added when there is an adjective before the noun, for example:

• den store guide = the big guide

Viser is the present tense of at vise = to show.

In Danish, present tense verbs often end in -r:

• vise → viser
• sortere → sorterer
• læse → læser

Also, Danish verbs do not change according to the subject the way English verbs sometimes do. So you get:

• jeg viser
• du viser
• han viser
• de viser

The verb form stays the same.

Because the base noun mærke is a neuter noun.

You say:

• et mærke = a label/mark
• mærket = the label/mark

So:

• et sorteringsmærke
• sorteringsmærket

The important rule is that in a Danish compound noun, the last part decides the gender. Since mærke is neuter, the whole compound is neuter too.

Because this is the definite plural form.

Break it down like this:

• en dåse = a can
• dåser = cans
• dåserne = the cans

With the first part added:

• en spraydåse = a spray can
• spraydåser = spray cans
• spraydåserne = the spray cans

So the ending -ne here marks definite plural.

The last part does.

That is a very useful rule.

Examples from the sentence:

• sorteringsguide behaves like guide
• sorteringsmærke behaves like mærke
• spraydåse behaves like dåse

So if you know the final noun, you usually know how the whole compound behaves grammatically.

Here for links sorteringsmærket to spraydåserne.

It means something like:

• for
• intended for
• relating to

So sorteringsmærket for spraydåserne means the sorting label/mark connected with spray cans.

It is a very common preposition and often works similarly to English for, though the exact use always depends on context.

It is very similar to basic English word order.

The sentence structure is:

• Sorteringsguiden = subject
• viser = verb
• sorteringsmærket = object
• for spraydåserne = prepositional phrase

So it follows a straightforward main-clause pattern: subject + verb + object + extra information

That said, Danish is a verb-second language, so if another element comes first, the verb still stays in second position. But in this sentence, the order feels very familiar to an English speaker.

It is capitalized because it is the first word of the sentence.

In modern Danish, common nouns are not capitalized just because they are nouns. So in the middle of a sentence, it would normally be:

• sorteringsguiden

This is different from German, where all nouns are capitalized.