Akşam ıspanak ve brokoli haşlayıp üzerine yoğurt koyacağız.

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Breakdown of Akşam ıspanak ve brokoli haşlayıp üzerine yoğurt koyacağız.

• akşam: evening
• koymak: to put
• -ıp: and

Questions & Answers about Akşam ıspanak ve brokoli haşlayıp üzerine yoğurt koyacağız.

What does akşam mean here? Is it in the evening or tonight?

Here akşam most naturally means this evening / tonight.

Turkish often uses akşam without a preposition-like word. So:

• Akşam geleceğim. = I’ll come tonight / in the evening.
• Akşam yemek yapacağız. = We’ll cook dinner tonight.

In this sentence, Akşam ıspanak ve brokoli haşlayıp üzerine yoğurt koyacağız, the idea is:

• Tonight, we’ll boil spinach and broccoli and put yogurt on top.

So akşam sets the time for the whole sentence.

Why are ıspanak and brokoli singular? Why not plural?

In Turkish, food items and many general nouns are often left in the singular when English might also leave them uncountable or treat them as ingredients.

So:

• ıspanak = spinach
• brokoli = broccoli

These are being used as ingredients, not as countable individual objects. Turkish does not need plurals here.

Compare:

• Elma yedim. = I ate apples / an apple
  (depends on context)
• Akşam brokoli yapacağız. = We’ll make broccoli tonight.

If you said ıspanaklar or brokoliler, it would sound unusual in this context.

Why is there no ending like -ı / -i on ıspanak and brokoli?