Quando a bandeja estiver pronta, leva também uma tigela com feijão e ervilhas.

Because after quando when you are talking about a future situation in Portuguese, you normally use the future subjunctive.

So:

• Quando a bandeja estiver pronta = When the tray is ready / Once the tray is ready
• not Quando a bandeja está pronta in this kind of future instruction

This is very common in Portuguese:

• Quando chegares, liga-me. = When you arrive, call me.
• Quando tiver tempo, faço isso. = When I have time, I’ll do that.

English does not have a special verb form here, so this often feels unusual to English speakers.

It is the verb estar in the future subjunctive, plus the adjective pronta.

• estar = to be
• estiver = future subjunctive form of estar
• pronta = ready

So a bandeja estiver pronta literally means the tray be ready in a future/conditional sense, but in natural English it is when the tray is ready.

Also, pronta agrees with bandeja, which is a feminine singular noun.

Because adjectives in Portuguese usually agree in gender and number with the noun they describe.

• a bandeja is feminine singular
• so the adjective must also be feminine singular: pronta

Compare:

• o prato está pronto = the plate is ready
• a bandeja está pronta = the tray is ready
• as bandejas estão prontas = the trays are ready

Most likely, yes. In this sentence, leva is probably an instruction meaning take / bring / carry.

So the sentence sounds like an instruction in a kitchen, restaurant, or recipe context:

• Quando a bandeja estiver pronta, leva também uma tigela com feijão e ervilhas.
• When the tray is ready, also take a bowl with beans and peas.

In European Portuguese, leva can be the tu imperative form of levar.

It can also look identical to the 3rd person singular present (he/she takes), but the context strongly suggests an instruction.

Probably tu, which is the informal singular you.

That is because:

• verb levar
• tu imperative: leva
• more formal singular command: leve
• plural informal command (vós) is rare in modern speech
• plural polite/informal would usually be phrased differently, such as levem

So leva suggests the speaker is telling one person informally to do it.

Yes. If the speaker were addressing someone more formally, you would usually expect:

• Quando a bandeja estiver pronta, leve também uma tigela com feijão e ervilhas.

Here, leve is the command form associated with você / o senhor / a senhora.

So:

• leva = informal singular command, usually tu
• leve = formal singular command

This is a useful distinction in European Portuguese.

Também means also or too.

In this sentence, it adds the idea that the person should take the bowl in addition to something else.

• leva também uma tigela... = also take a bowl...

Its position is very natural in Portuguese. It usually goes near the verb or the element it modifies.

Compare:

• Leva também uma tigela. = Also take a bowl.
• Também leva uma tigela. = also possible, but the emphasis can feel slightly different

For learners, the safest idea is: também often comes before or after the verb, depending on the sentence rhythm and emphasis.

They are two different containers:

• bandeja = tray
• tigela = bowl

So the sentence mentions two separate items:

1. a bandeja = the tray
2. uma tigela com feijão e ervilhas = a bowl with beans and peas

A learner might get confused because both are objects used to hold food, but they are not interchangeable.

Here, com means with, so the bowl is described as a bowl with beans and peas in it.

• uma tigela com feijão e ervilhas = a bowl with beans and peas

Using de would often suggest a bowl of something as its content or type, but with two ingredients listed, com sounds very natural and straightforward.

So this wording emphasizes the bowl as an object that contains those foods.

Portuguese often leaves out articles in cases like this when talking about food or ingredients in a general sense.

So:

• com feijão e ervilhas = with beans and peas

You could sometimes hear articles in other contexts, but here the zero-article version is perfectly natural.

English learners often expect something closer to with the beans and the peas, but Portuguese does not need that here.

It can mean beans in general, but in real usage it often refers to cooked beans as food.

So in this sentence, uma tigela com feijão e ervilhas most naturally means a bowl containing a bean dish and peas, or simply beans and peas served together.

Context matters a lot with food words in Portuguese.

The comma separates the introductory subordinate clause from the main clause:

• Quando a bandeja estiver pronta, = subordinate time clause
• leva também uma tigela com feijão e ervilhas. = main clause

This is very similar to English:

• When the tray is ready, also take a bowl with beans and peas.

The comma helps mark the pause and structure of the sentence.

Yes. In this context, both can work depending on the tone of the English translation.

• When the tray is ready...
• Once the tray is ready...

Because this is an instruction, once can sometimes sound especially natural in English, since it clearly points to the next step after completion.

So quando is literally when, but once may be a good natural translation in context.

The base verb is levar.

Common meanings include:

• to take
• to carry
• to bring in some contexts

In this sentence, the best English translation depends on the situation:

• in a kitchen or serving context: bring or take
• if someone is physically carrying items somewhere: carry

So leva também uma tigela... could be understood as:

• take a bowl as well
• bring a bowl as well
• carry a bowl as well

Context decides which English verb sounds best.