Kompostbingen står bak drivhuset.

Norwegian very often makes compound nouns by joining words together into a single word.

Here:

• kompost = compost
• binge = bin / enclosure / container

So kompostbinge = compost bin, and the definite form becomes kompostbingen = the compost bin.

This is much more natural in Norwegian than writing the parts separately.

The ending -en marks the noun as definite singular for many masculine and some feminine nouns.

So:

• en kompostbinge = a compost bin
• kompostbingen = the compost bin

English usually uses a separate word, the, but Norwegian often adds the definiteness to the end of the noun.

Because drivhus is a neuter noun.

In Norwegian, the definite singular ending depends on the noun’s gender:

• many masculine nouns take -en
• many neuter nouns take -et

So:

• et drivhus = a greenhouse
• drivhuset = the greenhouse

That is why the sentence has kompostbingen but drivhuset.

In Norwegian, stå is often used for things that are standing in a place or positioned upright.

So Kompostbingen står bak drivhuset sounds natural because the compost bin is being described as physically located there.

Compare:

• er = is
• står = stands / is standing

Norwegian often uses position verbs where English just uses is:

• Huset står på toppen av bakken. = The house is on top of the hill.
• Flasken står på bordet. = The bottle is on the table.

So in this sentence, står is not unusual or dramatic; it is just the natural Norwegian way to describe where something is.

Bak is a preposition, and here it means behind.

So:

• bak drivhuset = behind the greenhouse

Prepositions in Norwegian do not change form here. You simply use bak plus the noun phrase.

Other examples:

• bak huset = behind the house
• bak skolen = behind the school

Because Norwegian usually puts definiteness on the noun itself.

So instead of saying something like the greenhouse with a separate article, Norwegian says:

• drivhuset

This is very normal:

• bilen = the car
• huset = the house
• døra / døren = the door

English uses a separate definite article; Norwegian often uses a suffix.

The sentence follows the normal Norwegian main-clause pattern:

Subject + verb + adverbial/place

So:

• Kompostbingen = subject
• står = verb
• bak drivhuset = place expression

This is similar to English:

• The compost bin / stands-is located / behind the greenhouse

Norwegian main clauses normally keep the finite verb in second position, and this sentence fits that pattern perfectly.

Yes. står is the present tense of stå.

Useful forms:

• å stå = to stand
• står = stands / is standing
• sto = stood / was standing
• har stått = has stood / has been standing

So you could say:

• Kompostbingen sto bak drivhuset. = The compost bin stood / was behind the greenhouse.
• Kompostbingen har stått bak drivhuset lenge. = The compost bin has been behind the greenhouse for a long time.

A rough guide for an English speaker is:

• kompostbingen ≈ KOM-post-bing-en
• står ≈ something like stor but with a rounded vowel
• bak ≈ bahk
• drivhuset ≈ DREEV-hoo-set

A few notes:

• driv sounds roughly like dreev
• hus has a long u sound, somewhat like hoos
• the r in står is Norwegian, so it may sound different from many English accents

The natural stress is usually:

• KOMpostbingen står bak DRIVhuset

Yes, but it changes the feel slightly.

• Kompostbingen er bak drivhuset = The compost bin is behind the greenhouse.
• Kompostbingen står bak drivhuset = The compost bin is standing / located behind the greenhouse.

Both can be understood, but står is often more natural when talking about the physical placement of an object. Norwegian uses stå, ligge, and henge much more than English uses stand, lie, and hang.

So står is a very good, idiomatic choice here.