Утром мы сделали смузи из киви и йогурта, а потом я снова включил тостер.

Утром is the instrumental case of утро (morning), and in Russian this form is very commonly used as an adverb meaning in the morning.

So:

• утро = morning
• утром = in the morning

This is a fixed, very common time expression, similar to:

• днём = during the day
• вечером = in the evening
• ночью = at night

So Утром мы сделали... means In the morning, we made...

Сделали is the perfective past tense of сделать, while делали is the imperfective past tense of делать.

Here, сделали is used because the sentence presents the smoothie-making as a completed action:

• мы сделали смузи = we made a smoothie / we finished making a smoothie

If you said мы делали смузи, it would focus more on the process or ongoing activity:

• мы делали смузи, когда... = we were making a smoothie when...

So the perfective fits because the speaker is telling a sequence of finished events:

1. we made the smoothie
2. then I turned the toaster on again

In the past tense, Russian verbs agree with gender and number.

For сделали:

• сделал = he did / made
• сделала = she did / made
• сделало = it did / made
• сделали = they did / made

Since the subject is мы (we), the verb must be plural, so you get сделали.

Смузи is a borrowed noun that is usually treated as indeclinable in Russian. That means its form does not change across cases.

So you often see:

• смузи = smoothie
• сделали смузи = made a smoothie
• вкус смузи = the taste of the smoothie

The same thing happens with some other borrowed words, though not all borrowed words behave this way.

Here из means from / out of, and it is used to show what something is made from.

So:

• смузи из киви и йогурта = a smoothie made from kiwi and yogurt

This is a very common pattern:

• суп из грибов = soup made from mushrooms
• сок из апельсинов = juice from oranges
• дом из дерева = a house made of wood

After из, Russian normally uses the genitive case.

Because из requires the genitive case.

• йогурт → йогурта in the genitive singular
• киви stays киви because it is usually indeclinable

So:

• из йогурта = from yogurt
• из киви = from kiwi

This is a very common thing in Russian: one noun changes because it declines, while another one stays the same because it does not.

Because йогурт here is being treated like a mass noun, similar to yogurt in English.

In English you would normally say:

• a smoothie made from kiwi and yogurt

not

• a smoothie made from yogurts

Russian works the same way here:

• из йогурта = from yogurt

If you were talking about several separate yogurts, then plural might make sense in another context, but not here.

Yes, but the meaning shifts a little.

• смузи из киви и йогурта emphasizes the ingredients it is made from
• смузи с киви и йогуртом sounds more like a smoothie with kiwi and yogurt, focusing on what it contains

In many everyday situations both could be understood, but из is especially natural when you mean the main ingredients or what something was made from.

Both are possible in some contexts, but а потом is very natural here because it marks the next event and gives a slight sense of moving on to another action.

• а потом = and then / and after that / then
• и потом can also mean and then, but often sounds a bit more like simple addition

In narratives, Russian often uses а потом to move from one event to the next.

So the sentence flows like this:

• Утром мы сделали смузи...
• а потом я снова включил тостер

That sounds very natural in storytelling.

Because the first action was done by we, while the second action was done by I alone.

• мы сделали смузи = we made a smoothie
• я снова включил тостер = I turned the toaster on again

Russian, like English, can change subjects from clause to clause when the people doing the actions are different.

Включил is the past tense masculine singular form of включить (to turn on / switch on).

Breakdown:

• включить = perfective infinitive
• включил = he/I turned on
• включила = she/I turned on
• включили = they/we turned on

Since the subject is я, the past tense agrees with the speaker’s gender:

• a male speaker says я включил
• a female speaker says я включила

So this sentence suggests that the speaker is male.

Because the sentence refers to a single completed action: the toaster was turned on.

• включил = turned on, completed
• включал = was turning on / used to turn on / turned on repeatedly, depending on context

Here the speaker is listing finished events in order, so perfective is the natural choice.

Снова means again.

So:

• я снова включил тостер = I turned the toaster on again

Its position is fairly flexible, but different positions can slightly shift emphasis:

• я снова включил тостер = neutral, very natural
• я включил тостер снова = also possible, but a bit more marked
• снова я включил тостер = stronger emphasis on again

The version in your sentence is the most neutral and common.

No. The verb включить has several meanings depending on context, but with devices it commonly means to turn on / switch on.

So:

• включить свет = turn on the light
• включить телевизор = turn on the TV
• включить тостер = turn on the toaster

You are right that in other contexts включить can mean include, but not here.

Yes, often they can be, because the verb forms already show the subject:

• сделали already tells you the subject is we/they from context
• включил already tells you it is a masculine singular subject, often I or he

So Russian could say:

• Утром сделали смузи из киви и йогурта, а потом снова включил тостер.

But in practice, keeping мы and я makes the sentence clearer and more natural, especially since the subject changes from we to I.

No, Russian word order is relatively flexible. The sentence as given is natural and neutral, but other orders are possible.

For example:

• Утром мы сделали смузи из киви и йогурта...
  neutral: In the morning we made a smoothie...

• Мы утром сделали смузи из киви и йогурта...
  also natural, with slightly different emphasis

• Тостер я снова включил потом
  grammatically possible, but much less neutral and more marked

Russian word order often depends on emphasis, topic, and flow of information, not just grammar.

Russian does not have articles like a, an, or the.

So:

• сделали смузи can mean made a smoothie or made the smoothie
• включил тостер can mean turned on a toaster or turned on the toaster

The exact meaning is understood from context. In this sentence, English naturally uses a smoothie and the toaster or a toaster, depending on the situation, but Russian does not need separate article words.

Yes, киви here can be understood as singular in form, but in practice it may refer to kiwi as an ingredient rather than to one countable fruit.

Russian often does this with food ingredients. The exact amount is not important unless the speaker wants to specify it.

So из киви и йогурта is best understood as:

• made from kiwi and yogurt

rather than worrying too much about whether it means one kiwi or some kiwi.

Sometimes yes, but the nuance changes.

• утром = in the morning
• с утра = since morning / from the morning / early in the morning, depending on context

So in your sentence, утром is the simple, neutral choice for stating when something happened.

If you said С утра мы сделали смузи..., it could sound a bit more like earlier in the morning or starting from the morning, depending on the broader context.

Because а is a coordinating conjunction connecting two clauses:

• Утром мы сделали смузи из киви и йогурта
• а потом я снова включил тостер

In Russian, conjunctions like а often require a comma when they join clauses with their own subjects and verbs.

So the comma is standard punctuation here.