Giỏ có đồ ăn nhẹ và nước ngọt.

Giỏ means basket.

A rough pronunciation is something like yawr or zor, depending on dialect, but the most important part is the tone:

• gi in southern speech often sounds like y
• gi in northern speech is closer to z
• ỏ has the hỏi tone, a dipping/rising tone

So giỏ is not flat in pitch. The tone matters, because changing the tone can change the word.

Có here means has / contains / there is.

In Giỏ có đồ ăn nhẹ và nước ngọt, it literally works like:

• Giỏ = basket
• có = has / contains
• đồ ăn nhẹ và nước ngọt = snacks and soft drinks

So the sentence can be understood as:

• The basket has snacks and soft drinks
• or There are snacks and soft drinks in the basket

Vietnamese often uses có for both possession and existence, depending on context.

Vietnamese usually does not use articles like a, an, or the the way English does.

So giỏ can mean:

• a basket
• the basket
• sometimes just basket

The context tells you which one is meant.

That means Giỏ có đồ ăn nhẹ và nước ngọt could naturally be understood as:

• The basket has snacks and soft drinks
• A basket has snacks and soft drinks
• There are snacks and soft drinks in the basket

In real use, context usually makes it clear.

Đồ ăn nhẹ literally breaks down like this:

• đồ ăn = food / things to eat
• nhẹ = light

So đồ ăn nhẹ literally means light food, but in natural English it usually means snacks.

It is a common expression. You do not usually translate it word-for-word in normal English.
So here, đồ ăn nhẹ is best understood as snack food or snacks.

Yes, literally:

• nước = water / drink / liquid
• ngọt = sweet

So nước ngọt literally means sweet drink or sweet water, but in everyday Vietnamese it usually means soft drink / soda.

This is a very normal vocabulary item, so it is best learned as a set phrase:

• nước ngọt = soft drink / soda

Depending on context, it can refer generally to sweet bottled or canned drinks.

Và means and.

It connects the two noun phrases:

• đồ ăn nhẹ = snacks
• nước ngọt = soft drinks

So:

• đồ ăn nhẹ và nước ngọt = snacks and soft drinks

This works very similarly to English word order:

• noun + and
  • noun

Vietnamese nouns usually do not change form for singular or plural.

So:

• đồ ăn nhẹ can mean snack, snacks, or snack food
• nước ngọt can mean a soft drink or soft drinks

Number is usually understood from context or shown with other words, such as:

• một = one
• hai = two
• nhiều = many

In your sentence, the natural English translation is plural because that is what makes the most sense:

• The basket has snacks and soft drinks

It can feel like either one.

Giỏ có đồ ăn nhẹ và nước ngọt is structurally like:

• The basket has snacks and soft drinks

But in natural usage, Vietnamese often allows a possession structure like this to express what is present somewhere, so it can also be understood like:

• There are snacks and soft drinks in the basket

If you want to make the location more explicit, you could say:

• Trong giỏ có đồ ăn nhẹ và nước ngọt.
• In the basket, there are snacks and soft drinks.

Both are natural, but Trong giỏ có... is more explicitly locational.

Yes, absolutely.

That version means more explicitly:

• In the basket, there are snacks and soft drinks

Compare:

• Giỏ có đồ ăn nhẹ và nước ngọt. = The basket has / contains snacks and soft drinks.

• Trong giỏ có đồ ăn nhẹ và nước ngọt. = In the basket, there are snacks and soft drinks.

The second version sounds a little more like you are describing what is inside the basket rather than treating the basket as the grammatical subject.

The word order is:

• Giỏ = subject
• có = verb
• đồ ăn nhẹ và nước ngọt = object / complement

So it follows a very familiar pattern for English speakers:

Subject + Verb + Object

• Giỏ → basket
• có → has
• đồ ăn nhẹ và nước ngọt → snacks and soft drinks

That makes this sentence fairly straightforward for an English speaker to understand grammatically.

A rough pronunciation guide is:

Giỏ có đồ ăn nhẹ và nước ngọt
≈ yor/zor kaw daw an nye va nwək ngawt

A few important notes:

• có has a rising tone
• đồ has a falling tone
• nhẹ has a heavy, low glottalized tone
• ngọt also has a heavy tone

You do not need a perfect English-style approximation, but you should pay attention to the tone marks, because they are part of the word, not optional extras.