Lägg undan kontoutdraget.

Lägg is the imperative form of the verb lägga, which means to lay / put / place.

The imperative is used for commands and instructions, so Swedish often starts a command with the verb:

• Lägg undan kontoutdraget. = command
• Ät maten. = Eat the food.
• Öppna dörren. = Open the door.

Like English, Swedish commands usually do not include a subject such as you. The you is understood.

Lägga undan is a verb + particle combination. Together, it means something like:

• put away
• set aside
• put aside

So this is not just the basic verb lägga by itself. The particle undan changes the meaning.

Compare:

• lägga = put, lay
• lägga undan = put away, set aside
• lägga fram = lay out, present
• lägga ner = put down / shut down, depending on context

This is very common in Swedish, just as English has phrasal verbs like put away, take off, write down.

Because undan is the particle that belongs to the expression lägga undan.

It often suggests moving something out of the way, aside, or into storage. In many situations, English would translate it as away or aside.

For example:

• Lägg undan boken. = Put the book away.
• Hon lägger undan pengar varje månad. = She sets aside money every month.

So undan does not have to mean something literal like under or from beneath here. In this sentence, it is simply part of the established verb expression.

In this sentence, undan is a particle that follows the verb.

In Swedish main clauses and commands, verb particles are often placed after the finite verb:

• Lägg undan kontoutdraget.
• Jag lägger undan kontoutdraget.

This is similar to English:

• Put away the bank statement.

So lägg undan works as a unit, even though it is written as two words.

Kontoutdraget is a singular definite noun, meaning the bank statement or the account statement, depending on context.

It is built from:

• konto = account
• utdrag = extract / statement
• -et = the definite ending for an ett-word

So:

• ett kontoutdrag = a bank statement
• kontoutdraget = the bank statement

Swedish very often makes compound nouns like this, and the definite article is usually added at the end as a suffix.

Because in Swedish, the is often expressed by a suffix attached to the noun, rather than by a separate word in front.

Here:

• kontoutdrag = bank statement
• kontoutdraget = the bank statement

This is one of the biggest differences from English.

More examples:

• en bok = a book

• boken = the book

• ett brev = a letter
• brevet = the letter

So in this sentence, -et is doing the job of English the.

Because kontoutdrag is an ett-word.

In Swedish, nouns usually belong to one of two common groups:

• en-words
• ett-words

The indefinite and definite forms usually look like this:

• en bok → boken
• ett kontoutdrag → kontoutdraget

A useful rule for compounds is that the last part usually determines the gender. Since utdrag is an ett-word, kontoutdrag is also an ett-word.

You would say:

• ett kontoutdrag

So the sentence would become:

• Lägg undan ett kontoutdrag.

That means Put away a bank statement.

Compare:

• kontoutdraget = the bank statement
• ett kontoutdrag = a bank statement

Yes. Kontoutdrag is a compound noun.

It is made from:

• konto = account
• utdrag = extract / statement

Together, the compound means something like account statement, which in natural English is often bank statement.

Swedish uses compound nouns constantly, much more freely than English. English often writes similar ideas as separate words, but Swedish tends to join them into one word.

Examples:

• bankkort = bank card
• dörrhandtag = door handle
• sjukhusrum = hospital room

So kontoutdraget is not unusually long by Swedish standards.

Yes.

It can be literal, meaning to physically put something away:

• Lägg undan kläderna. = Put the clothes away.

It can also be more figurative, especially with money:

• Hon lägger undan pengar. = She sets aside money.

In your sentence, with kontoutdraget, the most natural reading is probably literal: putting the bank statement away somewhere.

A normal present-tense statement would use lägger instead of lägg:

• Jag lägger undan kontoutdraget. = I am putting away / I put away the bank statement.

Other examples:

• Hon lägger undan kontoutdraget. = She puts away the bank statement.
• Kan du lägga undan kontoutdraget? = Can you put away the bank statement?

So:

• lägg = imperative
• lägger = present tense

A learner should especially notice these points:

• Lägg has a short vowel and a strong final gg sound.
• undan is usually pronounced roughly like UN-dan, with stress on the first syllable.
• kontoutdraget is a compound, and compounds in Swedish often have a main stress earlier in the word, especially on the first element: KON-to-utdraget.

A rough learner-friendly pronunciation might be:

• Lägg UN-dan KON-to-utdra-get

The exact melody depends on dialect, but the main thing is to treat kontoutdraget as one word and lägga undan as a natural verb-particle combination.

Yes, that can happen with pronouns.

With a full noun, Swedish commonly says:

• Lägg undan kontoutdraget.

But with a pronoun, Swedish often places the pronoun before the particle:

• Lägg det undan is not the normal choice.
• Lägg undan det is the usual form in modern standard Swedish.

So unlike English, Swedish generally keeps the particle and the object together more often in this kind of structure.

With this sentence, the given word order is completely natural and standard.