Hun bruker strykejern når hun skal stryke skjorten til møtet i morgen.

Skal + infinitive often expresses something planned, expected, or about to happen. Here, når hun skal stryke skjorten means something like when she is going to iron the shirt or when she needs to iron the shirt.

If you said når hun stryker skjorten, that would sound more like when she is ironing the shirt or when she irons the shirt, focusing more directly on the action itself rather than the planned task.

So skal stryke gives a sense of intention or upcoming action.

Because skal is a modal verb. In Norwegian, modal verbs are followed by the infinitive without å.

Common examples:

• hun skal stryke
• hun kan stryke
• hun må stryke
• hun vil stryke

But with many other verbs, you do need å:

• hun liker å stryke
• hun prøver å stryke

So skal stryke is correct, not skal å stryke.

Skjorten is definite singular: the shirt. It refers to a specific shirt.

Strykejern here is being used more generically, meaning an iron / the tool used for ironing. In that kind of use, Norwegian sometimes leaves out the article and focuses on the type of thing rather than one specific object.

That said, many speakers would also say et strykejern:

• Hun bruker et strykejern når hun skal stryke skjorten ...

The version with et sounds a bit more concrete: an actual countable iron.
The version without et sounds a bit more general or tool-focused.

Here når means when. Depending on context, it can also feel like whenever.

In this sentence, it introduces a time clause:

• Hun bruker strykejern når hun skal stryke skjorten ...
• She uses an iron when/whenever she is going to iron the shirt ...

So it connects the main action (bruker) with the situation in which it happens (når hun skal stryke ...).

Because after når, Norwegian uses a subordinate clause, and subordinate clauses usually keep the normal order:

subject + verb + infinitive/rest

• hun skal stryke

So:

• når hun skal stryke skjorten

If the når-clause comes first in the sentence, the main clause then changes word order:

• Når hun skal stryke skjorten til møtet i morgen, bruker hun strykejern.

Notice that the main clause becomes bruker hun, not hun bruker, because Norwegian puts the finite verb in second position in main clauses.

No, the second hun is needed. Each clause needs its own subject.

This sentence has two clauses:

1. Hun bruker strykejern
2. når hun skal stryke skjorten til møtet i morgen

Even though both clauses refer to the same person, Norwegian normally repeats the subject. So you cannot just leave out the second hun here.

Til often means for, to, or intended for, depending on context. In skjorten til møtet, it means the shirt for the meeting.

This is a very natural way in Norwegian to show that something is meant for a specific event or occasion.

So:

• skjorten til møtet = the shirt for the meeting

Using for is not always impossible in Norwegian, but til is the more natural choice here when talking about something intended for a particular event.

Most naturally, i morgen goes with møtet because it comes right after it:

• møtet i morgen = the meeting tomorrow

So the sentence is most naturally understood as:

• She uses an iron when she is going to iron the shirt for the meeting tomorrow.

If you wanted i morgen to clearly describe the ironing instead, you would usually move it:

• Hun skal stryke skjorten i morgen til møtet.
• I morgen skal hun stryke skjorten til møtet.

Word placement matters a lot for what sounds most closely connected.

Strykejern is a compound noun, which is very common in Norwegian.

It is made from:

• stryke = to iron
• jern = iron

So strykejern literally means something like ironing-iron, which is just the Norwegian word for iron.

Its forms are:

• et strykejern = an iron
• strykejernet = the iron
• strykejern = irons / generic use, depending on context
• strykejernene = the irons

Learning to recognize compounds is very useful in Norwegian.

Because Norwegian often uses the present tense for general habits, routines, and facts, even when the situation relates to the future.

Here, Hun bruker strykejern describes a general fact or typical behavior:

• She uses an iron ...

The future-like meaning comes from the rest of the sentence:

• når hun skal stryke skjorten ...

So the main clause is not really about one single future event. It is more like a general statement about what she does in that situation.

Yes. Møtet is the definite singular form of møte.

• et møte = a meeting
• møtet = the meeting

In this sentence, the meeting is specific: it is the one happening i morgen. That makes the definite form natural.

So:

• til møtet i morgen = for the meeting tomorrow

No. Stryke has several meanings in Norwegian, depending on context.

Common meanings include:

• to iron clothes
• to stroke or gently run your hand over something
• in some contexts, to fail or cross out, though that depends on the expression

In this sentence, because of skjorten and strykejern, the meaning is clearly to iron.

So context tells you which meaning is intended.