Hvis barna vil ha mer mais og bønner, får de lage sine egne tortillaer ved bordet.

Hvis means if and introduces a condition.

So Hvis barna vil ha mer mais og bønner means If the children want more corn and beans.

It starts a subordinate clause, which affects the word order in the rest of the sentence.

Barna means the children.

The noun barn is a neuter noun:

• et barn = a child
• barn = children or sometimes child, depending on context
• barna = the children

So here barna is definite plural: it refers to specific children, not children in general.

In this sentence, vil ha means want.

That is a very common Norwegian expression:

• Jeg vil ha kaffe. = I want coffee.
• Barna vil ha mer. = The children want more.

So even though it looks like will have word-for-word, the natural meaning here is want.

Because vil is a modal verb, and modal verbs are normally followed by the infinitive without å.

Common pattern:

• vil ha = want
• kan lage = can make
• skal spise = will / shall eat
• må gå = must go

So vil ha is correct, not vil å ha.

Mer means more for an amount, while flere means more for countable items.

Here, mais is usually treated as an uncountable food, and bønner can also be understood as food in general rather than individually counted beans. So mer mais og bønner sounds natural as more corn and beans in the sense of more food.

If you were specifically counting the beans, flere bønner could make sense. But in a food-serving context, mer is very natural.

Not in this sentence.

Får can mean several things depending on context. Here it means something like:

• get to
• are allowed to
• may

So får de lage sine egne tortillaer means they can / get to / are allowed to make their own tortillas.

It does not mean they physically receive tortillas.

This is because of Norwegian V2 word order in main clauses.

The first part, Hvis barna vil ha mer mais og bønner, is a subordinate clause placed first. After that, the main clause must still follow the rule that the finite verb comes in the second position.

So the structure is:

• Hvis barna vil ha mer mais og bønner,
• får de lage sine egne tortillaer ved bordet.

The whole hvis clause counts as the first element, so the verb får comes next.

This is very common in Norwegian:

• Hvis det regner, blir vi hjemme.
• Når han kommer, begynner vi.

Lage usually means make.

In food contexts, it can mean:

• make
• prepare
• sometimes assemble

So lage sine egne tortillaer means they make or put together their own tortillas themselves.

It does not necessarily mean making tortillas completely from scratch from flour and dough; it can also mean assembling them at the table.

Sine is a reflexive possessive, and egne adds emphasis.

• sine = their own when the owner is the subject of the clause
• egne = own, used for emphasis

So sine egne tortillaer means their own tortillas.

This tells us that de are making tortillas for themselves, not someone else’s tortillas.

This is an important Norwegian difference.

Use sin/sitt/sine when the owner is the same as the subject of the clause:

• Barna lager sine tortillaer. = The children make their own tortillas.

Use deres when the owner is someone else, or when you want a non-reflexive meaning:

• Barna lager deres tortillaer. = The children make their tortillas for them / someone else’s tortillas, depending on context.

So in this sentence, sine is the natural choice because the children are making tortillas for themselves.

That is the plural form of tortilla in Norwegian.

A simplified pattern is:

• en tortilla = a tortilla
• tortillaer = tortillas

Many borrowed words in Norwegian take regular plural endings like -er.

Because ved bordet means at the table or by the table, while på bordet means on the table.

So:

• ved bordet = they are sitting or working at the table
• på bordet = something is physically on top of the table

Here the meaning is that they make the tortillas while sitting at the table, so ved bordet is the right choice.

Because the sentence begins with a subordinate clause:

Hvis barna vil ha mer mais og bønner

and then moves to the main clause:

får de lage sine egne tortillaer ved bordet

In Norwegian, it is standard to put a comma between an initial subordinate clause and the main clause that follows.

Yes. That is one of the key nuances of får here.

Depending on context, får de lage sine egne tortillaer can mean:

• they are allowed to make their own tortillas
• they get to make their own tortillas

So it often sounds more like permission or opportunity than simple ability. If you wanted pure ability, Norwegian would more often use kan.