Jeg legger sopp og avokado i to forskjellige skåler, slik at alle kan velge selv.

Jeg legger comes from å legge, which often means to lay, to place, or to put.

In this sentence, Jeg legger sopp og avokado i to forskjellige skåler means that the speaker is putting/placing mushrooms and avocado into two separate bowls.

Why not another verb?

• å legge is very natural for placing something somewhere
• å putte also means to put, but can sound a bit more like stuffing or putting in
• å sette is more often used for setting something upright or putting an object down in a position

So legger is a normal, natural choice here.

Yes, English would often say I am putting mushrooms and avocado into two separate bowls...

Norwegian often uses the simple present where English prefers the present progressive.

So:

• Jeg legger ... can mean I put ..., I am putting ..., or sometimes even I’m going to put ..., depending on context.

This is very common in Norwegian. The present tense is often enough by itself.

Because here they are being used as ingredient names or food items in a general sense, not as individually counted objects.

So:

• sopp = mushrooms / mushroom
• avokado = avocado

In food contexts, Norwegian often leaves out the article when talking about some amount of an ingredient:

• Jeg kutter løk. = I’m chopping onion/onions.
• Vi har tomat i salaten. = We have tomato in the salad.

If you wanted to count them as individual items, you would usually add an article or plural form:

• en avokado = an avocado
• to avokadoer = two avocados

Formally, sopp is the singular form, but in this sentence it works more like a general food noun.

So here it does not necessarily mean one mushroom. It means something more like:

• mushrooms
• some mushroom
• mushroom as an ingredient

If you specifically meant several individual mushrooms as countable items, you could say sopper, but in food-related language, sopp is very commonly used in this broader way.

Because the adjective has to agree with the noun.

Here:

• skåler is plural
• so the adjective also takes the plural/common -e form: forskjellige

So:

• en stor skål = one big bowl
• to store skåler = two big bowls

And the same pattern gives:

• to forskjellige skåler = two different/separate bowls

So forskjellige is correct because the noun is plural.

Yes. That is the natural interpretation.

The sentence strongly suggests:

• mushrooms in one bowl
• avocado in another bowl

If both ingredients were in the same bowl, you would normally say:

• i en skål = in one bowl

So to forskjellige skåler tells you they are being kept separate.

Because a bowl is treated as a container, so the food goes in it.

• i en skål = in a bowl
• i en kopp = in a cup
• i en boks = in a box

By contrast, på is used more for surfaces:

• på en tallerken = on a plate
• på bordet = on the table

So i to forskjellige skåler is exactly what you would expect.

Slik at means so that.

It introduces the purpose or result of the first part of the sentence:

• Jeg legger sopp og avokado i to forskjellige skåler, slik at alle kan velge selv.
• I put mushrooms and avocado in two separate bowls so that everyone can choose for themselves.

This is a very useful expression in Norwegian.

A more spoken/colloquial alternative is often sånn at.

Here selv means something like:

• themselves
• for themselves
• on their own

So:

• alle kan velge selv = everyone can choose for themselves

It adds the idea that each person gets to make their own choice, rather than having the choice made for them.

Yes. After slik at, you get a subordinate clause, and Norwegian uses normal subordinate-clause word order.

Here that gives:

• alle = subject
• kan = finite verb
• velge = infinitive
• selv = adverb/emphasis

So:

• slik at alle kan velge selv

This is the normal pattern after a conjunction like slik at.

The most important thing for a learner is to recognize slik at as one unit meaning so that, followed by the clause explaining the purpose/result.

Yes. In everyday spoken Norwegian, sånn at is very common.

So these are both natural:

• slik at alle kan velge selv
• sånn at alle kan velge selv

The difference is mainly style:

• slik at = a bit more neutral/written
• sånn at = a bit more conversational/spoken

Both mean so that.