Akşam mercimek çorbası yapacağız, nohut ise yarına kalacak.

Here akşam is being used as a time word, so it means something like this evening / tonight.

Turkish often uses simple time nouns this way, without a preposition:

• Sabah gelirim. = I’ll come in the morning
• Akşam görüşürüz. = We’ll see each other this evening / tonight

So in this sentence, akşam sets the time for yapacağız: we’ll make lentil soup tonight.

Mercimek çorbası is a very common Turkish noun compound meaning lentil soup.

In Turkish, compounds like this are often formed as:

• first noun: unchanged
• second noun: takes a compound/possessive-type ending

So:

• mercimek = lentil
• çorba = soup
• çorbası = soup of the lentil type / lentil soup

This same pattern appears in many food names:

• domates çorbası = tomato soup
• tavuk suyu çorbası = chicken broth soup
• elma suyu = apple juice

So mercimek çorbası is just the normal Turkish way to say lentil soup.

Yapacağız comes from yapmak = to do / to make.

It breaks down like this:

• yap- = make/do
• -acak / -ecek = future tense
• -ız / -iz / -uz / -üz = we

So yapacağız means we will make or we’re going to make.

Because of vowel harmony and consonant changes, it appears here as yapacağız.

In context, mercimek çorbası yapacağız means we’ll make lentil soup.

Turkish commonly uses yapmak for preparing food, especially when talking generally about making a dish.

So these are very natural:

• Çorba yapacağım. = I’ll make soup.
• Pilav yaptık. = We made rice.
• Kek yapıyor. = She’s making a cake.

Sometimes other verbs are possible depending on context, but yapmak is the most normal choice here.

İse adds contrast or topic emphasis. Here it means something like:

• as for
• whereas
• but
• on the other hand

So:

• Akşam mercimek çorbası yapacağız, nohut ise yarına kalacak.

means roughly:

• We’ll make lentil soup tonight; as for the chickpeas, they’ll be left for tomorrow.

It helps contrast the two items:

• mercimek çorbası → for tonight
• nohut → for tomorrow

Without ise, the sentence would still be understandable, but ise makes the contrast clearer.

Yes, ise can appear either attached or written separately in some contexts, especially in modern everyday writing.

For example:

• Ben ise...
• Bense...

Both can be seen.

Here nohut ise is perfectly normal and clear. It simply marks nohut as the contrasting topic: as for the chickpeas.

So don’t worry too much about the spacing at this stage; the important thing is the function: contrast/topic shift.

Yes, English often uses the plural chickpeas, but Turkish often uses food names in the singular when speaking generally.

So:

• nohut = chickpeas / chickpea dish / chickpea ingredient, depending on context

Turkish does not always match English singular/plural patterns exactly. When talking about an ingredient or food item in general, the singular is very natural.

So nohut ise yarına kalacak does not mean only one chickpea. It means the chickpeas / the chickpea dish / the chickpea preparation will be left for tomorrow.

Yarın means tomorrow.

Yarına is yarın with the dative ending -a / -e, so literally it means something like to tomorrow / for tomorrow.

In Turkish, kalmak often works with this pattern when something is postponed or left for a later time:

• yarına kalmak = to be left for tomorrow

So:

• Nohut yarına kalacak. = The chickpeas will be left for tomorrow.

This is a very natural expression in Turkish.

It comes from kalmak, which often means to stay or to remain, but here the meaning is more idiomatic:

• yarına kalmak = to be left for tomorrow
• to be postponed until tomorrow

So kalacak is literally will remain / will stay, but in this sentence the natural English meaning is:

• it will be left for tomorrow
• it can wait until tomorrow

Yes. Turkish usually does not need a separate subject pronoun when the verb ending already shows the person.

Yapacağız already tells you the subject is we.

Compare:

• yapacağım = I will make
• yapacaksın = you will make
• yapacak = he/she/it will make
• yapacağız = we will make

So Turkish does not need biz here unless the speaker wants extra emphasis:

• Biz akşam mercimek çorbası yapacağız...

That would be more emphatic, like we will make it.

Yes, Turkish word order is flexible, but this version sounds natural and well-balanced.

Current order:

• Akşam = time
• mercimek çorbası = object
• yapacağız = verb
• nohut ise = contrasting topic
• yarına = time target
• kalacak = verb

A rough structure is:

• Tonight, we’ll make lentil soup; as for the chickpeas, they’ll be left for tomorrow.

You could move things around for emphasis, but the original sentence is very natural because:

1. it gives the time first,
2. then the main action,
3. then introduces the contrast with ise,
4. and ends each clause with its verb.

That final-verb pattern is very typical in Turkish.

Yes. Even if the meaning is literal, the structure is useful more generally for making plans and contrasts.

It shows a common Turkish pattern:

• X yapacağız, Y ise yarına kalacak.
• We’ll do X, but Y will be left for tomorrow.

For example:

• Bugün evi temizleyeceğiz, camlar ise yarına kalacak. = We’ll clean the house today, but the windows will be left for tomorrow.

So this sentence is a good model for how Turkish contrasts what gets done now and what gets postponed.