Til frokost skærer hun peberfrugt, broccoli og lidt skinke til en stor salat.

Danish often puts a time expression first when it wants to set the scene. Til frokost is a very natural way to begin a sentence like this.

When a non-subject element comes first in a main clause, Danish still keeps the finite verb in second position. That is why the next word is skærer, and the subject hun comes after it:

Til frokost + skærer + hun ...

This is a very important Danish pattern.

This is because of the Danish V2 rule (verb second).

In a normal main clause, the finite verb must be the second element. If the subject comes first, you get:

Hun skærer peberfrugt ...

But if something else comes first, like a time phrase, then the verb still stays second, and the subject moves after it:

Til frokost skærer hun ...

So skærer hun is not a question form here; it is just normal Danish word order after a fronted element.

Skærer is the present tense of at skære.

In this kind of sentence, present tense can describe:

• something happening now,
• a habitual action,
• a typical action in a routine.

So Danish uses the present tense very naturally here, just as English might say she cuts or she is cutting, depending on context.

Also, at skære is a fairly broad verb. In context, it can mean cut, slice, or sometimes chop, depending on what is being cut.

In Danish, when talking about ingredients, food items, or things being prepared, it is very common to leave out the article, especially in a list.

So:

• peberfrugt
• broccoli
• lidt skinke

can sound natural as ingredient-like nouns.

This is especially true when the focus is on what she is cutting rather than on one specific identifiable object.

If you wanted to be more explicit or more countable, Danish could also use an article in some contexts, for example en peberfrugt. But in a food-preparation sentence, the article is often omitted.

Lidt means a little or some.

It is often used with things treated as uncountable substances or food quantities, such as:

• lidt vand
• lidt ost
• lidt skinke

So lidt skinke sounds natural because ham here is being viewed as an amount of food, not as one whole countable object.

Without lidt, skinke could still be possible in some contexts, but lidt skinke gives a clearer idea of quantity and sounds very natural in a sentence about preparing ingredients.

The two instances of til do different jobs.

Til frokost is a fixed expression meaning something like for lunch / at lunchtime. It gives the time or occasion.

Til en stor salat means something like for a big salad. It tells you the purpose or result of the cutting.

So even though the same preposition appears twice, the function is different:

• first til = time/meal context
• second til = purpose/use

This is very common in Danish.

No, it is not really an indirect object.

It is better understood as a purpose phrase or result phrase. It tells us what the ingredients are being cut for:

... skærer ... til en stor salat

In other words, she is cutting them to make or for use in a big salad.

So the structure is more like:

• action: skærer
• things cut: peberfrugt, broccoli og lidt skinke
• purpose: til en stor salat

This is adjective agreement.

Salat is a common gender noun, so the indefinite singular article is en:

• en salat

When an adjective comes before an indefinite singular common gender noun, the adjective usually has no extra ending:

• en stor salat

Compare:

• en stor salat
• et stort æble

So:

• stor = common gender singular indefinite
• stort = neuter singular indefinite
• store = plural or definite contexts

That is why en stor salat is correct.

Yes. In this sentence, en stor salat is a countable dish: a big salad.

Danish salat can refer either to:

• salad as a dish, or
• salad/lettuce depending on context.

Here, because of en stor salat, it clearly refers to a salad dish being prepared.

Yes, that is possible.

Both versions are grammatical, but the emphasis changes.

• Til frokost skærer hun ...
  This starts with the time expression and sounds more like At lunch / For lunch, she cuts ...

• Hun skærer ... til frokost
  This starts with the subject and sounds a bit more neutral.

Danish is flexible about where time phrases go, but moving them to the front triggers the normal verb-second word order.

Because og is simply joining the last item in a list:

• peberfrugt, broccoli og lidt skinke

This works much like English lists without the Oxford comma. Standard Danish normally does not put a comma before og in a simple list like this.

Yes, til frokost is a very common fixed expression.

With meals in Danish, you often do not use an article when speaking generally about the mealtime:

• til morgenmad
• til frokost
• til aftensmad

Using an article would usually change the meaning and make it sound more like a specific event or occasion rather than the ordinary meal itself.

So here til frokost is the normal way to say it.