Jeg fikk lagt byttelappen i vesken min før vi gikk hjem fra butikken.

It is a very common Norwegian pattern: få + past participle.

Here, fikk lagt means something like:

• managed to put
• succeeded in putting
• got ... put

So Jeg fikk lagt byttelappen i vesken min suggests that the speaker successfully got the exchange slip into the bag.

It often gives a slight sense of completion or successful action, not just a plain statement that the action happened.

There is a small but important nuance:

• Jeg la byttelappen i vesken min = I put the exchange slip in my bag
• Jeg fikk lagt byttelappen i vesken min = I managed to put the exchange slip in my bag

So la is the simple past of legge and just states the action.

Fikk lagt adds the idea that the speaker got it done, possibly before time ran out, after remembering, or after making an effort.

Because after få in this construction, Norwegian uses the past participle.

The forms of legge are:

• legge = infinitive
• legger = present
• la = past
• lagt = past participle

So:

• jeg la = I put
• jeg fikk lagt = I managed to put

That is why lagt is the correct form here.

Because Norwegian usually adds the definite article to the end of the noun.

So:

• en byttelapp = an exchange slip
• byttelappen = the exchange slip

In this sentence, it is a specific slip already known in the situation, so the definite form is used.

The same thing happens with butikken:

• en butikk = a shop/store
• butikken = the shop/store

Because when the possessive comes after the noun in Norwegian, the noun usually takes the definite form.

So:

• vesken min = my bag

But not:

• min vesken ❌

If the possessive comes before the noun, then the noun is usually not definite:

• min veske = my bag

So the two normal patterns are:

• vesken min
• min veske

Yes.

All of these can be correct in Bokmål:

• vesken min
• min veske
• veska mi

The differences are mostly about style and form:

• vesken min is very common and neutral
• min veske can sound a bit more emphatic, contrastive, or formal
• veska mi uses the feminine form and is very common in speech and informal writing

This is possible because many feminine nouns in Bokmål can also be treated as common gender nouns.

So for veske, you may see both:

• en veske / vesken
• ei veske / veska

Because hjem is usually used as an adverb meaning home or homewards.

So Norwegian normally says:

• gå hjem = go home
• dra hjem = go home
• komme hjem = come home

Not:

• gå til hjem ❌

So vi gikk hjem is the normal way to say we went home.

Because før introduces a subordinate clause.

In Norwegian:

• main clauses usually follow the verb-second rule
• subordinate clauses usually do not

So:

• Vi gikk hjem = main clause
• før vi gikk hjem = subordinate clause

After før, the subject vi comes before the verb gikk.

This is the same pattern you see after other subordinating words such as:

• at
• fordi
• da
• mens

It tells you where they were going home from:

• fra butikken = from the store

So the clause means:

• before we went home from the store

Putting fra butikken at the end is completely natural in Norwegian.

Also, butikken is definite because it refers to the specific store they were in.

Not always, but gå often suggests walking more strongly than English go does.

So vi gikk hjem can sound like:

• we walked home
• or simply we went home, depending on context

If you want a more neutral went home without suggesting how, Norwegian often uses:

• vi dro hjem

So in this sentence, gikk hjem may imply walking, but context decides how strongly.

The sentence is built like this:

• Jeg = subject
• fikk = finite verb
• lagt = past participle
• byttelappen = object
• i vesken min = place/location phrase
• før vi gikk hjem fra butikken = time clause

So the pattern is roughly:

Subject + finite verb + past participle + object + place + time clause

That makes this a very useful example of how Norwegian can combine:

• a få + past participle construction
• a possessive phrase like vesken min
• a subordinate clause with før