Jeg vil ha te i kveld.

In Norwegian, vil ha is a very common way to say want when you are talking about a thing.

• vil = want / will
• ha = have

So Jeg vil ha te literally looks like I want to have tea, but in normal English it is usually just I want tea.

This is very natural Norwegian. You will hear it all the time with nouns:

• Jeg vil ha kaffe. = I want coffee.
• Hun vil ha en bok. = She wants a book.

Because vil is a modal verb, and modal verbs in Norwegian are followed by the bare infinitive.

So you get:

• Jeg vil ha te.
• Jeg kan snakke norsk.
• Hun skal reise i morgen.

Not:

• Jeg vil å ha te. ❌

This is similar to English, where we say I will go, not I will to go.

Not really. In this sentence, vil is mainly expressing desire or wanting, not simple future.

So Jeg vil ha te i kveld most naturally means that the speaker wants tea tonight.

Norwegian vil can sometimes look like English will, but it does not always match English future will exactly. Here, the meaning is much closer to want than to a neutral future statement.

If you wanted to make it sound more like a plan, Norwegian often uses other wording, for example:

• Jeg skal drikke te i kveld. = I’m going to drink tea tonight.

Both are possible, but they are slightly different.

• ha te = have tea
• drikke te = drink tea

In Norwegian, ha is often used in everyday speech for food and drink, just like English can say have tea, have coffee, or have dinner.

So:

• Jeg vil ha te i kveld. = I want tea tonight.
• Jeg vil drikke te i kveld. = I want to drink tea tonight.

The version with ha is very natural and common.

Because te is being used as an uncountable noun, like tea in English.

Compare:

• Jeg vil ha te. = I want tea.
• Jeg vil ha en te. = I want a tea.

The first means tea in a general sense, or some tea. The second can be used in some contexts, especially when ordering one serving, but te by itself is very normal.

So the lack of an article is not strange here.

I kveld means tonight or this evening.

• i = in
• kveld = evening

As a time expression, i kveld is the normal way to say that something happens tonight.

Examples:

• Jeg jobber i kveld. = I’m working tonight.
• Hva skal du gjøre i kveld? = What are you going to do tonight?

A useful contrast:

• i kveld = tonight / this evening
• om kvelden = in the evening / in the evenings

So Jeg vil ha te i kveld is about one specific evening: tonight.

The word order is:

subject + verb + infinitive + object + time expression

So here:

• Jeg = subject
• vil = finite verb
• ha = infinitive
• te = object
• i kveld = time expression

This gives:

Jeg vil ha te i kveld.

This is standard Norwegian main-clause word order.

Also remember that Norwegian is a verb-second language. If you move i kveld to the front, the verb still stays in second position:

• I kveld vil jeg ha te.

Not:

• I kveld jeg vil ha te. ❌

Yes, it can, depending on context.

Jeg vil ha te is perfectly grammatical and very common, but it can sound fairly direct, like I want tea.

If you want to sound softer or more polite, you can say:

• Jeg vil gjerne ha te. = I would like tea.
• Kan jeg få te? = Can I have tea?

So the original sentence is fine, but in a polite situation, many speakers would choose a softer form.

Te is the basic noun form, while teen is the definite form.

• te = tea
• teen = the tea

Examples:

• Jeg vil ha te. = I want tea.
• Teen er varm. = The tea is hot.

In your sentence, te is used because the speaker is talking about tea in a general sense, not a specific previously mentioned tea.

The pronunciation of jeg varies a lot by dialect, but in many common varieties of Bokmål-based speech it sounds roughly like yai.

A few helpful points:

• the j sounds like English y
• the written g is not pronounced like a hard English g
• pronunciation varies across Norway, so you may hear different versions

So if you are learning standard spoken Norwegian, thinking of jeg roughly as yai is a useful starting point.

Yes. This is a very productive pattern in Norwegian.

You can replace te with many other nouns:

• Jeg vil ha kaffe i kveld. = I want coffee tonight.
• Jeg vil ha suppe i kveld. = I want soup tonight.
• Jeg vil ha pizza i kveld. = I want pizza tonight.

So the sentence is a good model for building many similar sentences.