Ebéd után még egy kis leves marad az edényben.

In ebéd után, Hungarian treats ebéd as a general time expression: after lunch.

With meals, days, parts of the day, and similar time phrases, Hungarian often leaves out the article when speaking generally. So:

• ebéd után = after lunch
• reggeli előtt = before breakfast
• vacsora közben = during dinner

If you wanted to refer to a specific lunch, you could use an article in a different context, but here the article-less form is the normal one.

Után means after. It is a postposition, which is like a preposition except it comes after the noun.

So Hungarian says:

• ebéd után = literally lunch after

Unlike some other Hungarian structures, után does not require a special case ending on the noun here. The noun stays in its basic form:

• ebéd után
• munka után = after work
• óra után = after class

So this is just a normal postposition construction.

Here még means still.

So még egy kis leves marad means there is still a little soup left or a little soup still remains.

Common meanings of még include:

• still
• yet
• even in some contexts

In this sentence, still is the natural meaning. It suggests that after lunch, some soup remains in the container.

No. In this sentence, egy kis leves means a little soup or some soup.

This is a very common Hungarian pattern:

• egy kis víz = a little water
• egy kis pénz = a little money
• egy kis idő = a little time

Here egy kis works together almost like a little in English.

Also, kis is the usual short attributive form before a noun. Hungarian often uses kis before a noun instead of kicsi in this kind of phrase.

So:

• egy kis leves = a little soup
• not literally one small soup

Because marad means remains / stays / is left, which fits the idea much better than van.

Compare:

• Van leves az edényben. = There is soup in the pot.
• Marad leves az edényben. = Soup remains in the pot. / There is soup left in the pot.

In your sentence, the point is not just that soup exists in the container, but that some is left over after lunch. That is why marad is the natural verb.

Marad is the third person singular present tense form of the verb marad.

So it means:

• he/she/it remains
• there remains
• is left

In this sentence, the subject is egy kis leves, which is grammatically singular, so marad is singular too.

Because soup is being treated as a mass noun, just like in English.

In English, we say:

• a little soup is left not
• a little soups are left

Hungarian works the same way here:

• egy kis leves marad

Even though the amount is small or indefinite, the noun itself stays singular.

Az edényben means in the container / in the pot / in the vessel.

It has three parts:

• az = the
• edény = container, pot, vessel, dish
• -ben = in

So:

• edényben = in a container / in the pot
• az edényben = in the container / in the pot

The ending -ban/-ben is the inessive case, used for being inside something.

Examples:

• a házban = in the house
• a dobozban = in the box
• az edényben = in the container

Because az makes the container definite: it is a specific, known container.

So:

• az edényben = in the container / in the pot
• egy edényben = in a container / in one container

In this sentence, the speaker presumably has a particular dish or pot in mind, so the definite article is natural.

Yes, Hungarian word order is flexible, but different orders give different emphasis.

This sentence:

• Ebéd után még egy kis leves marad az edényben.

is a natural way to present the information as:

1. time frame: after lunch
2. what is still true: a little soup remains
3. location: in the container

Hungarian often places known/background information first, then the more important new information later.

You could change the order, but the emphasis would shift. For example:

• Az edényben még egy kis leves marad ebéd után.
  This gives more early attention to the container.

• Még egy kis leves marad az edényben ebéd után.
  This foregrounds the little soup that remains.

So the original order is not the only possible one, but it is a very normal and natural choice.

Yes. If you want to describe a finished past situation, you would usually say:

• Ebéd után még egy kis leves maradt az edényben.

Here maradt is the past tense of marad.

So:

• marad = remains / is left
• maradt = remained / was left

The present-tense version can work if you are describing a general situation, narrating vividly, or speaking from a present viewpoint. But in many everyday contexts, English speakers may expect the past form if the lunch is already over and the situation is being reported afterward.

Not always. Edény is a fairly general word for a container, vessel, dish, pot, cooking container, depending on context.

Possible translations include:

• pot
• container
• dish
• vessel

So in this sentence, pot may sound natural if you are imagining soup in cookware, but container is the broadest and safest meaning. The exact English word depends on the situation.