Jeg vil lave salat til frokost i morgen.

Vil can do both jobs, depending on context.

In Jeg vil lave salat til frokost i morgen, it most naturally means either:

• I want to make salad for lunch tomorrow
• or, in some contexts, I’m going to make salad for lunch tomorrow

Danish often uses vil where English might use either want to or a future meaning. If you want to make the future meaning clearer and more neutral, Danish often prefers the present tense with a time expression, or sometimes skal depending on the situation.

So vil often carries a sense of intention or willingness, not just a plain future tense marker.

Yes, lave means make or do, but in Danish it is very common to use lave for preparing food.

So:

• lave salat = make salad
• lave mad = make food / cook

This is normal Danish. English speakers sometimes expect a verb more like prepare, but lave is the everyday word.

Because salat here is being used as an uncountable or general food noun, much like English in I’m making salad.

Compare:

• Jeg vil lave salat = I want to make salad
• Jeg vil lave en salat = I want to make a salad

Both are possible, but they feel slightly different:

• salat = salad in general, as a dish or food
• en salat = one specific salad

In this sentence, the article is not necessary and the article-less version sounds very natural.

Til here means for, in the sense of intended for.

So:

• til frokost = for lunch
• til middag = for dinner
• til morgenmad = for breakfast

This is the normal Danish way to express what meal something is for.

Because Danish and English do not always match word-for-word. English uses for lunch, but Danish idiomatically uses til frokost.

So even though til often means to, here the best translation is for.

This is a very common thing in language learning: you translate the whole phrase, not each word separately.

Here i morgen means tomorrow.

This is a very important distinction:

• i morgen = tomorrow
• om morgenen = in the morning
• i morgen tidlig = tomorrow morning

So in your sentence, i morgen means the lunch is tomorrow, not in the morning.

Yes. Danish time expressions are fairly movable.

These are all possible:

• Jeg vil lave salat til frokost i morgen.
• I morgen vil jeg lave salat til frokost.
• Jeg vil i morgen lave salat til frokost.
  This is possible, but less neutral.

The most natural neutral version is probably the original one, or:

• I morgen vil jeg lave salat til frokost.

Notice that when I morgen comes first, the verb still stays in second position:

• I morgen vil jeg ...

That is a key Danish word-order rule.

Because after a modal verb like vil, Danish uses the bare infinitive, with no at.

So:

• jeg vil lave
• jeg kan lave
• jeg skal lave
• jeg må lave

Not:

• jeg vil at lave ✘

This is similar to English:

• I will make
• not I will to make

Because vil is a modal verb, and modal verbs are followed by an infinitive.

In this sentence:

• vil = finite verb
• lave = infinitive

So the structure is:

• Jeg = subject
• vil = modal / finite verb
• lave = infinitive main verb
• salat = object
• til frokost = purpose / meal phrase
• i morgen = time expression

This is a very standard Danish sentence pattern.

Yes, and it means something slightly different.

• Jeg vil lave ... = I want to make ... / I’m going to make ...
• Jeg skal lave ... = I’m going to make ... / I’m supposed to make ... / I will be making ...

Skal often suggests plan, obligation, or something already arranged.
Vil often suggests intention, desire, or willingness.

So both can work, but they are not always interchangeable.

The sentence follows the normal Danish main-clause pattern:

• Jeg = subject
• vil = finite verb
• lave salat = verb + object
• til frokost = adverbial phrase
• i morgen = time phrase

So:

Subject + finite verb + infinitive/main content + other information

A useful thing to remember is that in Danish main clauses, the finite verb usually comes in second position.

That is why:

• Jeg vil lave salat til frokost i morgen.
• I morgen vil jeg lave salat til frokost.

Both are correct, because vil stays in second position.

Usually salat means salad in a sentence like this.

However, in some contexts Danish can also use salat for lettuce, especially in compounds or food contexts. If you want to be specific, you may also hear types like:

• icebergsalat = iceberg lettuce
• romainesalat = romaine lettuce

In lave salat, the meaning is clearly make salad, not make lettuce.

Yes, it sounds natural.

A Danish speaker might also say:

• Jeg laver salat til frokost i morgen.

Using the present tense with a future time expression is very common in Danish, just as in English I’m making salad for lunch tomorrow can sound natural.

So your original sentence is good, but it is useful to know that Danish often expresses future plans without a special future tense.