Op kantoor staat een scanner naast mijn werkplek.

Dutch often puts the place or time first if that is the setting the speaker wants to establish.

So instead of starting with the subject, Dutch can start with:

• Op kantoor staat een scanner naast mijn werkplek.

This is very natural and means something like At the office, there is a scanner next to my workstation.

You could also say:

• Een scanner staat op kantoor naast mijn werkplek.

That is grammatically possible, but it sounds a bit less natural in many everyday contexts because the location is often the background information, so Dutch likes putting it first.

Dutch often uses verbs like staan, liggen, and zitten to describe where something is, depending on how it is positioned.

Here, een scanner is thought of as an object that is upright or resting in a normal standing position, so Dutch uses staan:

• De scanner staat naast mijn werkplek.

English usually just says is, but Dutch is more specific.

Very roughly:

• staan = to stand
• liggen = to lie
• zitten = to sit / be located in or on something in a contained or attached way

So Dutch prefers staat here rather than is.

This is because Dutch is a verb-second language in main clauses.

That means the finite verb must come in the second position.

In this sentence:

• Op kantoor = first position
• staat = second position
• een scanner = comes after the verb

So the structure is:

• Op kantoor | staat | een scanner | naast mijn werkplek

If the subject comes first, then the word order is more like:

• Een scanner staat naast mijn werkplek op kantoor.

But once Op kantoor is moved to the front, the verb must still stay in second position, so the subject moves after it.

Op kantoor is a fixed and very common Dutch expression meaning at the office or in the office environment.

It usually refers to being at work, at the workplace in a general sense.

• Ik ben op kantoor. = I’m at the office.

By contrast, in het kantoor usually sounds more literal and specific, as if you mean inside the office room/building.

So:

• op kantoor = at the office, at work
• in het kantoor = inside the office

In your sentence, op kantoor is the normal choice.

Een is the indefinite article, meaning a or an.

So:

• een scanner = a scanner

It is used because the sentence introduces the object without identifying a specific one beforehand.

If you were talking about a scanner already known to the listener, you would probably use:

• de scanner = the scanner

For example:

• De scanner staat naast mijn werkplek.

Also, scanner is a de-word, so the definite article is de, not het.

Naast means next to or beside.

So:

• naast mijn werkplek = next to my workstation

It usually suggests close physical proximity.

Compare:

• naast = next to, beside
• bij = by, near, at
• dicht bij = close to

So naast is more precise than just near. It suggests that the scanner is directly beside the workstation.

Werkplek means workplace, workstation, or desk area.

It refers to the place where someone works, which may include a desk, chair, computer, and surrounding space.

Bureau usually means desk or sometimes office depending on context.

So:

• mijn werkplek = my workstation / my work area
• mijn bureau = my desk

If the scanner is next to the whole work area, werkplek makes sense. If it is specifically next to the desk itself, bureau could also work:

• Naast mijn bureau staat een scanner.

Dutch possessives like mijn do not change for grammatical gender.

So mijn works with both de-words and het-words:

• mijn scanner
• mijn werkplek
• mijn boek

This is easier than in some languages, because you do not need separate forms for masculine, feminine, or neuter nouns here.

The only thing that may change is pronunciation or spelling in some informal speech, but standard written Dutch simply uses mijn.

Yes, that is grammatically correct.

Dutch allows different word orders depending on what you want to emphasize.

Compare:

• Op kantoor staat een scanner naast mijn werkplek.
• Een scanner staat op kantoor naast mijn werkplek.

The first version highlights the setting at the office first.
The second starts with the subject a scanner.

Both are possible, but the original sentence sounds very natural because Dutch often likes to place context such as location first.

The plural of scanner is usually scanners.

So the sentence becomes:

• Op kantoor staan scanners naast mijn werkplek.

Notice that the verb changes:

• singular: staat
• plural: staan

If you mean specific scanners, you could say:

• Op kantoor staan de scanners naast mijn werkplek.

A few useful pronunciation notes:

• op: short o, like a clipped vowel
• kantoor: stress on the second syllable: kan-TOOR
• staat: long aa
• scanner: very similar to English scanner
• naast: long aa
• mijn: sounds roughly like mine
• werkplek: werk
  • plek, with a clear k sound at the end of werk

Also, in natural speech, Dutch rhythm may make the sentence sound smoother than the spelling suggests:

• Op kantoor staat een scanner naast mijn werkplek.

The long vowels in staat and naast are especially important to hear clearly.