Punkteringen var liten, men jag gick ändå med cykeln till verkstaden.

Punktering means a puncture / a flat tire. In this sentence, punkteringen is the puncture or more naturally in English, the flat tire.

So:

• en punktering = a puncture
• punkteringen = the puncture / the flat tire

In everyday context with a bike, it usually refers to the tire having gone flat.

Because Swedish is using the definite form here: punkteringen = the puncture.

Swedish often uses the definite form when talking about something specific that both speaker and listener can identify from the situation. Here, it is the particular puncture on the bicycle.

Compare:

• En punktering var liten = A puncture was small
  This sounds odd in context.
• Punkteringen var liten = The puncture was small

The definite ending -en is attached to the noun itself, which is very common in Swedish.

Because punktering is a common gender noun (en-word), not a neuter noun (ett-word).

Adjectives in Swedish have to agree with the noun:

• en-word singular: liten
• ett-word singular: litet
• plural / definite forms often: små or sometimes a definite form depending on structure

Since it is:

• en punktering
• therefore: Punkteringen var liten

If the noun were an ett-word, you would use litet instead.

Both are in the past tense.

• var = past tense of är / vara (was)
• gick = past tense of går / gå (went / walked)

So:

• Punkteringen var liten = The puncture was small
• jag gick ... till verkstaden = I went / walked ... to the repair shop

Technically, gå often means walk, and in this sentence that is the most natural idea.

Because of med cykeln, the sentence suggests:

• I walked the bike to the repair shop
• or I went to the repair shop with the bike

In natural English, we would usually understand that the person was walking and pushing the bike, not riding it.

So here gick is best understood as walked.

Ändå means something like:

• still
• nevertheless
• anyway
• even so

In this sentence, it shows contrast:

• the puncture was small
• but despite that, the speaker still took the bike to the repair shop

So:

men jag gick ändå med cykeln till verkstaden
= but I still / nevertheless took the bike to the repair shop

This is normal Swedish word order.

In a main clause, Swedish usually puts the finite verb in the second position. That means gick comes early:

• men = but
• jag = I
• gick = walked/went
• ändå = still/nevertheless

So:

men jag gick ändå ...

This sounds natural in Swedish.
You may also see adverbs in slightly different positions in some sentences, but here this placement is standard and idiomatic.

Literally, it means with the bike.

In context, gick med cykeln usually means the speaker was walking along with the bicycle, probably pushing it, not riding it.

So the image is:

• the tire was flat
• the speaker could not properly ride the bike
• they walked it to the repair shop

This is a very natural Swedish way to express that.

Till means to, showing movement toward a destination.

So:

• till verkstaden = to the repair shop

This is used because the speaker is going somewhere.

Compare:

• till verkstaden = to the workshop/repair shop
• i verkstaden = in the workshop
• på verkstaden = at the workshop

Here the idea is destination, so till is the correct choice.

Because Swedish is using the definite form again:

• en verkstad = a workshop / a repair shop
• verkstaden = the workshop / the repair shop

In context, this often means a specific repair shop that the speaker had in mind.

English sometimes says to a repair shop, but Swedish often prefers the definite form when the place is understood or relevant in the situation.

By itself, verkstad means workshop, garage, or repair shop, depending on context.

Because the sentence mentions a bicycle, verkstaden is naturally understood as the repair shop for the bike.

If you want to be more explicit, Swedish could say:

• cykelverkstaden = the bicycle repair shop

But in the original sentence, just verkstaden is enough because the context makes it clear.

Not perfectly. A very literal translation would be something like:

The puncture was small, but I walked with the bike to the workshop anyway.

That is understandable, but not the most natural English.

More natural English would be:

• The puncture was minor, but I still walked the bike to the repair shop.
• The flat tire was small, but I took the bike to the repair shop anyway.
• The puncture wasn’t bad, but I still walked the bike to the repair shop.

So the Swedish structure is straightforward, but the most natural English translation may need a little adjustment.