Learn Hardcore Norwegian: Jeg lurer på om vi har tid.

lurer på is a fixed verb-preposition combination meaning “to wonder about.” The base verb lure can mean “to trick” or “to suspect,” but when you want to express “wondering,” you must add på. Dropping på would make the phrase ungrammatical.

Why do we use om here instead of hvis, and what function does it have?

In this sentence, om introduces an indirect yes/no question (“whether”). It tells us you’re embedding a question: “I wonder whether we have time.” In contrast, hvis marks a condition (“if” in the sense of “on the condition that”) and would change the meaning to something like “if we have time, then…”

Why is the word order om vi har tid and not om har vi tid?

Because after a subordinating conjunction like om, Norwegian uses normal subject-verb-object order. You only invert verb and subject in main clauses or direct questions. An embedded clause stays om vi har tid (subject before verb).

Why isn’t there an article before tid? Should it be en tid?

Here tid refers to the uncountable concept of “time” in general (free time), so it takes no article. en tid would mean “a (specific) time” or “a period,” which is a different, countable sense.

Is a question or a statement, and how would you punctuate it?