De anderen blijven thuis, maar wij gaan naar het park.

Yes. De anderen means the others.

A native English speaker might expect something like de andere mensen (the other people), but Dutch can also use anderen by itself to mean others. In that case, de makes it definite:

• de anderen = the others
• anderen = others

So de anderen blijven thuis means the others are staying home.

Because anderen takes the common-gender article de when it is used this way.

In Dutch, nouns are either de-words or het-words. When anderen is used as a noun-like word meaning others, it goes with de:

• de anderen
• not het anderen

This is just something you learn as part of the expression.

Here, blijven means to stay or to remain.

So:

• blijven thuis = stay home
• blijven can also mean remain

Examples:

• Ik blijf hier. = I’m staying here.
• Hij blijft rustig. = He remains calm.

In your sentence, it means they are not going anywhere; they are staying at home.

Thuis means at home or home, and Dutch often uses it without a preposition or article.

So:

• Ze blijven thuis. = They stay home / They stay at home.

This is very natural Dutch.

A few related forms:

• thuis = at home
• naar huis = homeward / to home
• thuisblijven = one written verb meaning to stay home

So you may also see:

• De anderen thuisblijven is not correct in this sentence structure.
• De anderen blijven thuis is the normal finite-verb sentence.
• As an infinitive, thuisblijven is possible: Ik wil thuisblijven. = I want to stay home.

Maar means but, while en means and.

The sentence contrasts two groups:

• De anderen blijven thuis = one thing happens
• maar wij gaan naar het park = a different, contrasting thing happens

So maar is the right conjunction because there is a contrast:

• the others stay home,
• but we go to the park.

If you used en, it would just join the facts without emphasizing that contrast.

Both wij and we can mean we.

The difference is mainly style and emphasis:

• we = unstressed, very common in everyday Dutch
• wij = stressed or slightly more formal/full form

In this sentence, wij sounds natural because there is a contrast:

• the others do one thing,
• we do another

That contrast often encourages the fuller form wij.

You could also hear:

• De anderen blijven thuis, maar we gaan naar het park.

That is also correct, but wij gives a bit more emphasis.

Yes, in this sentence Dutch is using normal main-clause word order:

• subject + finite verb + rest

So:

• wij = subject
• gaan = finite verb
• naar het park = rest of the clause

This is similar to English:

• we go to the park

Dutch main clauses usually put the finite verb in the second position. Here the subject is first, so the verb comes right after it.

Because Dutch needs the preposition naar for movement toward a place.

• naar het park = to the park

So:

• Wij gaan naar het park. = We are going to the park.

Without naar, the sentence would be ungrammatical here.

Compare:

• Wij zijn in het park. = We are in the park.
• Wij gaan naar het park. = We go to the park.

So naar marks direction or destination.

Park is a het-word, so it takes het:

• het park

Unfortunately, whether a noun takes de or het often has to be learned noun by noun. There are patterns, but many common nouns just need memorization.

So for this sentence, the important thing is:

• park → het park

If you are learning vocabulary, it is best to memorize nouns together with their article:

• het park
• de straat
• het huis
• de school

Because maar does not itself trigger inversion.

It simply joins two main clauses, and each clause keeps normal main-clause order unless something else is placed first.

So:

• De anderen blijven thuis
• maar wij gaan naar het park

Both clauses have normal order:

• subject + verb + rest

Compare that with a sentence where another element comes first:

• Morgen gaan wij naar het park.

Here morgen is first, so the verb must come before the subject. But maar is just a conjunction linking clauses; it does not count as the first element inside the second clause in the same way.

Yes, absolutely.

That version is very natural and common in spoken Dutch. The difference is mainly that wij sounds a bit fuller or more emphatic than we.

So both are correct:

• De anderen blijven thuis, maar wij gaan naar het park.
• De anderen blijven thuis, maar we gaan naar het park.

The version with wij fits especially well if you want to stress the contrast.

It can often be understood either as simple present go or as a near-future/present arrangement are going, depending on context.

Dutch uses the present tense quite broadly. So:

• Wij gaan naar het park.

can mean:

• We go to the park
• We are going to the park
• We’re going to the park

In real conversation, context usually makes the time clear.

Because thuis already carries the idea of home / at home.

Dutch often expresses this more compactly than English:

• thuis = home / at home

So:

• Ik ben thuis. = I am at home.
• Ik blijf thuis. = I stay home / I stay at home.

English often needs at, but Dutch does not need a separate preposition here.