Pilav piştikten sonra kenara alındı.

The pilaf was set aside after cooking.

Breakdown of Pilav piştikten sonra kenara alındı.

• sonra: after
• pilav: the pilaf
• pişmek: to cook
• kenara alınmak: to be set aside

Questions & Answers about Pilav piştikten sonra kenara alındı.

Can you break down Pilav piştikten sonra kenara alındı morpheme by morpheme and give a literal translation?

Certainly. Here’s a word-by-word and morpheme breakdown:

• Pilav
  – “rice” or “pilaf” (nominative case; the subject)
• piş-ti-k-ten sonra
  
  1. piş- (verb root “cook”)
  2. -ti (simple past tense) → pişti (“it cooked”)
  3. -k (nominalizer/participle) → piştik (“the state of having been cooked”)
  4. -ten (ablative) → piştikten (“from having been cooked”)
  5. sonra (“after”) → piştikten sonra (“after it has been cooked”)
• kenar-a
  – kenar (“side, edge”) + -a (dative/directional) → “to the side”
• al-ın-dı
  
  1. al- (verb root “take”)
  2. -ın (passive) → alın (“be taken”)
  3. -dı (simple past) → alındı (“it was taken”)

Literal gloss: “Rice after it was cooked to the side was taken.”

How is piştikten sonra formed, and when should I use the -dikten sonra suffix in Turkish?

• Formation of -dikten sonra:
  
  1. Start with the verb stem (e.g. piş- “to cook”)
  2. Add -tik to make a past participle → piştik
  3. Add -ten (ablative) → piştikten
  4. Add sonra (“after”) → piştikten sonra (“after it has been cooked”)
• Usage: whenever you want to say “after doing [verb]”
  • Ödevimi bitirdikten sonra dinlendim.
  (“I rested after finishing my homework.”)
  • Toplantıdan çıktıktan sonra kahve içelim.
  (“Let’s have coffee after the meeting ends.”)

What’s the difference between piştikten sonra, pişince, and piştiğinde in this context?

• piştikten sonra (“after it has been cooked”): stresses that cooking is fully completed before the next step.
• pişince (“when/as soon as it cooks”): indicates immediacy — the moment cooking happens you move on.
• piştiğinde (“when it is cooked”): similar to pişince but a bit more formal or explicit; can also mean “whenever it has been cooked.”
  Example nuance:
  • Pilav piştikten sonra kenara alındı. (After it’s completely done, set it aside.)
  • Pilav pişince kenara alın. (As soon as it’s cooked, set it aside.)

I see alındı here. Is this passive? What tense is it, and why is the subject not mentioned?

• alın- is the passive stem of almak (“to take”).
• alındı = simple past passive, 3rd person singular (“it was taken”).
• In Turkish recipes and instructions, the passive voice is often used impersonally, so the agent (you, we, etc.) is omitted.
• Thus Pilav piştikten sonra kenara alındı literally means “After the rice was cooked, it was taken aside,” with no explicit “who.”

Why is pilav not marked with any suffix like -ı if it’s involved in “taking”?

• In a passive construction, the original object becomes the subject and takes the nominative case (no suffix).
• Here pilav acts as the subject of both verbs (it cooks; it is taken aside).
• Subjects in Turkish remain unmarked (nominative) unless you add emphasis or need to distinguish from other roles.

What does kenara express, and which case is it?

• kenar = “side, edge.”
• -a is the dative/directional suffix (“to”).
• kenara therefore means “to the side.”
• It indicates the goal/location toward which the action of alındı (“was taken”) is directed.

Can I say Pilav piştikten sonra kenara koyuldu instead? What’s the difference?

• Yes. kenara koyuldu uses the passive of koymak (“to put”): “it was put aside.”
• kenara alındı (“it was taken aside”) emphasizes moving it away;
  kenara koyuldu (“it was put aside”) highlights placing it down.
• Both are common in recipes and generally interchangeable:
  • Pilav piştikten sonra kenara koyuldu.