De broodrooster staat naast de waterkoker op het aanrecht.

Dutch very often uses a position verb where English would simply use is.

In this sentence, staat comes from staan (to stand). Dutch uses staan for many objects that are:

• upright, or
• placed somewhere on a surface

So for things like a toaster, kettle, bottle, lamp, or chair, staan is often the most natural choice.

• De broodrooster staat op het aanrecht. = The toaster is on the counter.
• De fles staat op tafel. = The bottle is on the table.

English usually does not say stands in these cases, but Dutch often does.

Staat is the third-person singular present tense of staan.

Because the subject is singular:

• de broodrooster = the toaster

you get:

• de broodrooster staat = the toaster stands / is standing / is

If the subject were plural, you would use staan:

• De broodroosters staan naast de waterkoker. = The toasters are next to the kettle.

Dutch nouns take either de or het as their definite article.

In this sentence:

• de broodrooster → broodrooster is a de-word
• de waterkoker → waterkoker is a de-word
• het aanrecht → aanrecht is a het-word

Unfortunately, this is something you usually have to learn with each noun. There are patterns, but many nouns simply have to be memorized.

A useful habit is to learn nouns together with the article:

• de broodrooster
• de waterkoker
• het aanrecht

not just the bare noun by itself.

Naast means next to or beside.

It is a preposition, so it is followed by a noun phrase:

• naast de waterkoker = next to the kettle
• naast de koelkast = next to the fridge

There is nothing special to change after naast—Dutch does not have case endings here the way German does.

Op means on and het aanrecht means the kitchen counter / countertop.

So:

• op het aanrecht = on the counter

Aanrecht usually refers to the kitchen work surface or counter area. In everyday English, counter or countertop is usually the best translation.

The sentence follows normal Dutch main-clause word order:

• De broodrooster = subject
• staat = finite verb
• naast de waterkoker op het aanrecht = the rest of the sentence

So the basic pattern is:

Subject + finite verb + other information

That is very common in Dutch main clauses:

• De kat slaapt op de bank.
• Mijn tas ligt op tafel.

Dutch is a verb-second language, so in a normal statement the finite verb comes early in the sentence.

The sentence gives location in two layers:

• naast de waterkoker = the toaster’s position relative to the kettle
• op het aanrecht = the larger location where this setup is

So Dutch is saying something like:

• the toaster is next to the kettle
• and this is happening on the counter

This kind of stacking of location phrases is very normal in Dutch.

Yes, absolutely. That is also natural Dutch.

Compare:

• De broodrooster staat naast de waterkoker op het aanrecht.
• De broodrooster staat op het aanrecht naast de waterkoker.

Both are fine. The difference is mostly about focus and what comes first in the flow of information.

A rough way to feel the difference:

• naast de waterkoker first → focuses first on the toaster being next to the kettle
• op het aanrecht first → focuses first on the counter as the location

In everyday speech, both would be understood easily.

Not always in a strict physical sense.

With objects, staan often becomes the normal Dutch way to describe where something is located, especially if it is:

• on a surface
• treated as a standing object
• thought of as being placed somewhere

So you should not always translate it too literally as stands upright. Very often, the best English translation is simply is.

That is why:

• De broodrooster staat op het aanrecht is usually best translated as
• The toaster is on the counter

not

• The toaster stands on the counter

Yes. Dutch loves compound nouns, and they are usually written as one word.

• broodrooster = brood
  • rooster
• waterkoker = water
  • koker

This is very normal in Dutch. English often writes similar ideas as one word, two words, or with a hyphen, but Dutch much more often uses a single combined word.

So:

• broodrooster is correct
• brood rooster is not correct

Because in Dutch, compound nouns are generally written together as a single word.

This is one of the biggest spelling habits English speakers need to get used to.

Examples:

• waterfles = water bottle
• keukentafel = kitchen table
• theelepel = teaspoon
• broodrooster = toaster

If English would write two nouns together, Dutch will very often write them as one word.

A rough English-friendly guide:

• de → like a reduced duh
• broodrooster → roughly BROHT-roh-ster
• staat → roughly staaht
• naast → roughly naahst
• waterkoker → roughly VAA-ter-koh-ker
  (the Dutch w sounds more like English v)
• op → short op
• het → often a reduced hut or very light ut
• aanrecht → roughly AHN-rekht
  The ch is the harsh Dutch sound, not like English ch in chair.

A few important sound notes:

• aa is a long vowel
• Dutch r may sound different from English r
• the ch in aanrecht is the well-known guttural Dutch sound

Yes. Op het aanrecht is a very common everyday expression in Dutch.

You will often hear things like:

• De borden staan op het aanrecht.
• De boodschappen liggen op het aanrecht.
• Mijn sleutels liggen op het aanrecht.

So this is a very useful phrase to remember as a chunk:

• op het aanrecht = on the counter

You would usually replace de/het with een where appropriate:

• Een broodrooster staat naast een waterkoker op het aanrecht.

That means:

• A toaster is next to a kettle on the counter.

A few article reminders:

• de / het = the
• een = a / an

Unlike de and het, een does not change based on noun gender.