Jeg øver på norsk uttale hver kveld.

Because øve på is the usual Norwegian pattern when you mean practice a skill, topic, or activity.

• å øve på noe = to practice something / work on something
• Jeg øver på norsk uttale = I practice Norwegian pronunciation

The preposition på is just part of the expression here. English learners often want to translate word-for-word, but this is one of those verb + preposition combinations you mostly just learn as a chunk.

Other examples:

• Jeg øver på piano. = I practice piano.
• Hun øver på å snakke norsk. = She practices speaking Norwegian.

In Norwegian, the present tense is commonly used for both:

• things happening now
• regular habits

So Jeg øver på norsk uttale hver kveld naturally means I practice Norwegian pronunciation every evening.

You do not need a special tense like English I am practicing or I practice here. The time expression hver kveld makes it clear that this is habitual.

Because norsk uttale is being used in a general sense, not as one specific, clearly identified thing.

In English, we also often do this:

• I practice Norwegian pronunciation
• not necessarily I practice the Norwegian pronunciation

In Norwegian, this general, non-specific use often has no article:

• Jeg lærer norsk grammatikk.
• Han studerer norsk historie.
• Vi øver på norsk uttale.

If you wanted to make it more specific, you would word it differently, for example:

• Jeg øver på uttalen min. = I practice my pronunciation.

Here, norsk is an adjective meaning Norwegian. It describes uttale.

So:

• norsk uttale = Norwegian pronunciation

This is similar to:

• norsk grammatikk = Norwegian grammar
• norsk språk = Norwegian language

In this sentence, norsk has no extra ending because it is modifying an indefinite singular noun in a normal way.

Here it is a noun meaning pronunciation.

That can be confusing because uttale can also be the infinitive form of a verb:

• å uttale = to pronounce
• uttale = pronunciation

In this sentence, it must be a noun because it comes after norsk:

• norsk uttale = Norwegian pronunciation

So the structure tells you what it is.

Hver kveld means every evening.

• hver = each / every
• kveld = evening

Together, they express something that happens regularly.

You will see the same pattern in many other time expressions:

• hver dag = every day
• hver uke = every week
• hvert år = every year

Notice that hver changes sometimes depending on the noun:

• hver kveld
• hver dag
• hvert år

Because time expressions often come late in a normal Norwegian statement, especially after the verb phrase.

So this is a very natural word order:

• Jeg øver på norsk uttale hver kveld.

But Norwegian word order is flexible enough that you can move the time expression to the front for emphasis:

• Hver kveld øver jeg på norsk uttale.

That is also correct, but when you put something first in a Norwegian main clause, the verb usually has to come second. So you get:

• Hver kveld øver jeg ...
• not Hver kveld jeg øver ...

No, not as a normal main sentence.

Norwegian follows the verb-second rule in main clauses. That means if you move Hver kveld to the front, the finite verb must come next:

• Hver kveld øver jeg på norsk uttale.

So the correct patterns are:

• Jeg øver på norsk uttale hver kveld.
• Hver kveld øver jeg på norsk uttale.

This is a very important difference from English word order.

The letter ø is a vowel that does not exist in standard English, so it often feels tricky at first.

A useful approximation:

• say something like the vowel in British English bird or nurse
• but make it more rounded, with your lips slightly rounded forward

So øver sounds roughly like UH-ver with a rounded vowel, but that is only an approximation.

A few pronunciation notes:

• ø is the same letter in both syllables: ø-ver
• the r at the end may sound light or weak depending on dialect
• the word usually has stress on the first syllable: Ø-ver

Not exactly. The pronunciation of jeg varies a lot by dialect, and learners notice this very quickly.

Common pronunciations include something like:

• yai
• yaih
• jæi
• sometimes even forms closer to eg in some dialects

If you are learning standard East Norwegian pronunciation, a common learner-friendly approximation is yai.

So in careful speech, the sentence may sound roughly like:

• Yai Ø-ver po norsk uh-ta-le hver kvel

But real pronunciation varies a lot, especially for jeg.

Sometimes, yes, but øve på is the most natural choice for practicing a skill.

For example:

• Jeg øver på norsk uttale. = I practice Norwegian pronunciation.

Other verbs may change the meaning:

• Jeg trener på norsk uttale. = possible, but sounds a bit more like training/drilling
• Jeg arbeider med norsk uttale. = I work on Norwegian pronunciation
• Jeg studerer norsk uttale. = I study Norwegian pronunciation

So if your meaning is simple repeated practice, øve på is the best everyday choice.