I helgen vil jeg koble fra og lese i dagboken min.

Norwegian usually uses the preposition i with helg when you mean this/that weekend in general:

• I helgen = “this weekend” / “over the weekend” (upcoming or just passed, depending on context)
• You don’t normally say på helgen in this meaning.

You can say:

• denne helgen = “this (specific) weekend” – a bit more explicit/emphatic
• forrige helg = “last weekend”
• neste helg = “next weekend”

So I helgen vil jeg … is the most natural, everyday way to say “This weekend I will / I want to …”

On its own, I helgen is ambiguous; it just means “in the weekend / over the weekend” and context decides:

• Talking about the future:
  
  • I helgen vil jeg koble fra … = “This coming weekend I want to disconnect …”
• Talking about the past:
  
  • I helgen koblet jeg fra og leste i dagboken min. = “This past weekend I disconnected and read my diary.”

If you need to be precise without context, you use:

• forrige helg = last weekend
• neste helg = next weekend

Norwegian main clauses follow the V2 rule: the finite verb (here: vil) must come second in the sentence.

In this sentence:

1. I helgen = first element (time phrase)
2. vil = finite verb (must be in second position)
3. jeg = subject
4. koble fra og lese i dagboken min = rest of the sentence

So:

• I helgen vil jeg koble fra … ✅
• I helgen jeg vil koble fra … ❌ (breaks the V2 rule)

You could also say:

• Jeg vil koble fra i helgen. – here jeg is first, vil is still second, so it’s also correct.

vil can express both intention/willingness and a kind of future meaning, and often it overlaps both:

• Jeg vil koble fra.
  
  • Could be understood as “I want to disconnect.” (intention/desire)
  • In context, also works as “I’m going to / I will disconnect.”

Compare with skal:

• Jeg skal koble fra i helgen.
  
  • More like: “I’m going to disconnect this weekend / I’m supposed to disconnect this weekend” (plan/arrangement).

In your sentence, vil sounds more like a personal choice or wish than a fixed plan.

å koble fra literally comes from “to disconnect / unplug (a connection)”:

• Technically: koble fra strømmen = disconnect the power
• Figuratively (as here): koble fra = disconnect from work, screens, stress → “unplug”, “switch off (mentally)”.

Similar expression:

• å koble av – also common, very close in meaning: “unwind, relax, disconnect”.

In this context:

• koble fra ≈ “disconnect, switch off” (from everyday stress, social media, etc.)

Both are grammatically possible, but there’s a nuance:

• lese i [bok/dagbok/avis]
  
  • Focus on reading in it for a while, spending time with it.
  • Common idiomatic way to talk about reading part of a book/diary, not necessarily all of it.
• lese [bok/dagbok]
  
  • More like reading the text as a whole object (e.g., “read the entire book”).

So:

• lese i dagboken min ≈ “read in my diary / read from my diary (for a while)” – very natural in Norwegian.
• lese dagboken min could sound more like “go through/read the diary (as a whole)”, and is less idiomatic in this everyday context.

Norwegian allows two positions for possessive pronouns:

1. Preposed possessive (before the noun):
   
   • min dagbok
2. Postposed possessive (after the noun, which is then definite):
   
   • dagboken min

Both are grammatically correct, but:

• dagboken min (definite + possessive after) is the most natural, neutral way in everyday speech here.
• min dagbok is also possible; it can sound:
  • slightly more formal or written, or
  • more contrastive/emphatic (e.g., not someone else’s diary).

Also note the forms:

• en dagbok → dagboken → dagboken min (Bokmål, masculine)
• In some Bokmål/dialects you may hear: ei dagbok → dagboka → dagboka mi (feminine)

This is normal in Norwegian when the possessive pronoun comes after the noun:

• en dagbok = a diary
• dagboken = the diary
• dagboken min = the diary of mine → “my diary”

So the pattern is:

• [noun + definite suffix] + [possessive]
  
  • boken min = my book
  • huset vårt = our house
  • vennene deres = their friends

It’s not considered “double” in a wrong way; it’s simply how the language works with postposed possessives.

Yes, that’s also correct in many varieties of Bokmål and in a lot of spoken Norwegian:

• helga instead of helgen
• dagboka mi instead of dagboken min

Differences:

• helgen / dagboken min – more standard East Norwegian / “textbook” Bokmål (with masculine -en).
• helga / dagboka mi – more typical of dialects and of Bokmål that keeps feminine gender.

Both styles are acceptable in Bokmål; you just normally stay consistent within one style.

In Norwegian, after modal verbs like vil, you do not repeat å before the second verb when they share the same subject:

• Jeg vil koble fra og lese i dagboken min. ✅
• Jeg vil koble fra og å lese i dagboken min. ❌ (unnatural here)

Rule of thumb:

• After vil, skal, kan, må, bør, pleier, use bare infinitives:
  • Jeg vil reise og besøke henne.
  • Han skal jobbe og studere.

You normally only use å if you’re starting a new infinitive clause that doesn’t share exactly the same structure, which isn’t the case here.