Deigen er ikke klar til å brettes, enn si bakes.

Enn si is an expression meaning something like let alone, much less, or never mind.

So in this sentence, the idea is:

• the dough is not even ready to be folded,
• let alone baked.

It introduces something that is an even bigger step or even less possible than the first thing mentioned.

A few similar English equivalents are:

• let alone
• much less
• not to mention

So Deigen er ikke klar til å brettes, enn si bakes means the dough has not reached the stage where folding is possible, and baking is even further away.

Here, brettes and bakes are passive infinitive forms with -s.

That means:

• å brette = to fold
• å brettes = to be folded

and:

• å bake = to bake
• å bakes = to be baked

So the sentence is not saying that the dough will do the action itself. It means the dough is the thing receiving the action.

• Deigen er ikke klar til å brettes = The dough is not ready to be folded
• ... enn si bakes = ... let alone be baked

This -s passive is common in Norwegian, especially in more formal or compact phrasing.

Because the meaning is to be folded, not to fold.

Compare:

• Deigen er klar til å brette would mean the dough is ready to fold something, which does not make sense.
• Deigen er klar til å brettes means the dough is ready to be folded, which is what is meant.

So the passive form is necessary because deigen is the object of the action, not the doer.

It is omitted because it is understood from the first part.

The full structure is basically:

• klar til å brettes, enn si å bakes

But Norwegian often leaves out repeated words when the structure is already clear. That makes the sentence more elegant and natural.

So:

• til å brettes, enn si bakes

works like English:

• to be folded, let alone baked

where you also often omit the repeated to be in the second part.

It is understandable and fairly common, but it can sound a bit more literary, formal, or polished than very basic everyday speech.

In casual speech, people might more often use alternatives such as:

• for ikke å snakke om
• og slett ikke
• langt mindre

But enn si is absolutely a real and useful expression to know, especially in writing and in more careful spoken language.

Klar til means ready for or ready to.

In this sentence:

• klar til å brettes = ready to be folded

A few comparisons:

• Jeg er klar til å dra. = I am ready to leave.
• Maten er klar til å spises. = The food is ready to be eaten.
• Huset er klart til bruk. = The house is ready for use.

So klar til is a very common pattern in Norwegian.

Deigen is the definite form of deig.

• deig = dough
• deigen = the dough

The sentence refers to a specific dough, not dough in general, so the definite form is used.

Also, deig is a masculine noun, so:

• en deig
• deigen

That is the normal word order in a Norwegian main clause.

The pattern is:

• subject + verb + ikke
  • rest

So:

• Deigen = subject
• er = verb
• ikke = not
• klar = ready

This is very typical:

• Han er ikke hjemme.
• Vi har ikke tid.
• Maten er ikke ferdig.

In subordinate clauses, ikke is usually placed before the verb, but this sentence is a main clause, so er ikke is correct.

Yes. A more expanded alternative would be:

• Deigen er ikke klar til å bli brettet, enn si bakt.

This uses the bli-passive:

• å bli brettet = to be folded
• å bli bakt = to be baked

That version is also correct, and in some contexts it may sound more neutral or clearer to learners.

The original sentence uses the shorter -s passive, which is more compact:

• å brettes
• å bakes

Both are passive, but the style is a little different.

Because after til å, you need an infinitive, not a past participle.

Compare:

• å bake = infinitive
• bake / bakes = infinitive / passive infinitive
• bakt = past participle

Here the structure is:

• klar til å ...

So what follows must be an infinitive form:

• å brettes
• å bakes

If you used bakt, you would need a different structure, such as:

• Deigen er ikke brettet
• Brødet er bakt

Those are describing completed states, not what something is ready for.

With dough, å brette means to fold it, usually as part of bread-making or pastry-making.

So å brettes here means to be folded.

This is common baking vocabulary. In English, folding dough usually refers to stretching and folding it during preparation, especially with bread dough.

So the sentence is talking about stages in the baking process:

1. first the dough must be ready for folding,
2. only later would it be ready for baking.

The comma helps mark enn si as a kind of inserted comparative expression: let alone.

It separates the first idea from the stronger second idea:

• ikke klar til å brettes
• enn si bakes

In practice, the comma is very natural here and helps readability. You will often see punctuation used this way with expressions that add an extra step or contrast.

You can, but it may sound slightly unnatural if you stay too close to the Norwegian structure.

A very literal version would be:

• The dough is not ready to be folded, let alone baked.

That is actually quite natural English.

What you should avoid is translating each form too mechanically, such as:

• The dough is not ready to folds, let alone bakes

That would be wrong in English because the Norwegian passive -s does not map directly onto English verb endings. In English, you need to be folded and to be baked.

No. It only says that baking is an even more advanced stage than folding.

So the meaning is:

• the dough has not even reached the folding stage,
• therefore it is certainly not at the baking stage.

It does not promise that baking will happen later. It only compares two stages and says the second one is even further away than the first.