Met die kleine fietspomp krijgt Tom de band sneller weer hard.

Because Dutch often puts a time, place, or manner phrase first for emphasis or topic.

Here, Met die kleine fietspomp means with that small bicycle pump, and it is placed at the front to highlight the tool Tom is using.

If you put the sentence in a more basic order, it would be:

Tom krijgt de band met die kleine fietspomp sneller weer hard.

Both are possible, but starting with Met die kleine fietspomp gives that part more attention.

This is because of the verb-second rule in Dutch main clauses.

In a normal main clause, the finite verb must be in the second position. If something other than the subject comes first, the verb still stays second, and the subject moves after it.

So:

• Tom krijgt de band weer hard.
• Met die kleine fietspomp krijgt Tom de band weer hard.

The first whole phrase, Met die kleine fietspomp, counts as position 1. Then krijgt must come next.

Die means that.

So:

• die kleine fietspomp = that small bicycle pump
• deze kleine fietspomp = this small bicycle pump

Dutch makes a distinction similar to English:

• deze = this
• die = that

Here the speaker is referring to a specific pump that is a bit more distant in context, so die is used.

Because kleine comes before a noun and is being used as an attributive adjective.

In Dutch, adjectives before most nouns usually take -e:

• de kleine fietspomp
• de harde band
• een kleine pomp

So klein becomes kleine before fietspomp.

Fietspomp is a compound noun:

• fiets = bicycle
• pomp = pump

Together, fietspomp means bicycle pump.

Dutch uses compounds very often, much like English:

• fietsband = bicycle tire
• huisdeur = house door / front door
• tafelblad = tabletop

So learning to spot the parts of a compound is very useful.

Here krijgt ... hard means manages to make ... hard/firm.

It is a common Dutch pattern:

iets + adjective + krijgen
= to get something into a certain state

Examples:

• de band hard krijgen = to get the tire firm/inflated
• de deur open krijgen = to get the door open
• het raam dicht krijgen = to get the window closed

So Tom krijgt de band weer hard means Tom succeeds in making the tire firm again.

Because the sentence focuses on the result, not just the action.

• pompen focuses on pumping
• de band hard krijgen focuses on successfully making the tire firm again

So krijgen here has the idea of managing to achieve a result.

A more direct sentence with pompen could be:

Tom pompt de band weer hard op.

But de band weer hard krijgen sounds very natural when talking about getting the tire back into usable condition.

Here de band means the tire.

In Dutch, band can have several meanings depending on context, such as:

• tire
• band
• strap
• bond / connection

But with fietspomp, the meaning is clearly tire.

So in this sentence, de band is the bicycle tire being inflated.

In Dutch, hard can mean firm or not soft, not just hard in the abstract English sense.

For tires, balloons, and similar things, Dutch often uses hard to mean well inflated / firm.

So:

• een harde band = a firm tire
• de band weer hard krijgen = to make the tire firm again

In natural English, you would usually not say hard here. You would say something like:

• inflate the tire again
• get the tire firm again
• pump the tire back up

Weer here means again.

So:

• de band hard krijgen = get the tire firm
• de band weer hard krijgen = get the tire firm again

It shows that the tire was hard before, then it was not, and now Tom is making it hard once more.

Because weer modifies the whole result idea: the tire becomes hard again.

In Dutch result constructions like this, the adverb often comes before the adjective:

• de deur weer open krijgen
• het raam weer dicht krijgen
• de band weer hard krijgen

So weer hard goes together naturally as hard again.

Sneller is the comparative form of snel:

• snel = fast
• sneller = faster

So the sentence means Tom can get the tire hard again faster with that small bicycle pump.

The comparison is often understood from context. It might mean:

• faster than with another pump
• faster than before
• faster than expected

Dutch does not always need to state exactly what it is being compared with.

Yes, that is close to the Dutch structure, but it sounds less natural in English.

A more natural English translation would be something like:

• With that small bicycle pump, Tom can inflate the tire again more quickly.
• With that small bicycle pump, Tom gets the tire firm again faster.
• With that small bicycle pump, Tom can get the tire hard again faster.

So the Dutch sentence is very normal, even if a word-for-word English version sounds a bit unusual.

Yes, absolutely.

That version is also very natural and makes the meaning of ability a bit more explicit:

• Tom kan de band sneller weer hard krijgen.
• Met die kleine fietspomp kan Tom de band sneller weer hard krijgen.

The original sentence without kan already suggests successful ability in context, because krijgen often carries the idea of managing to do something.