Хліб замішується вранці на кухні.

Bread is kneaded in the morning in the kitchen.

Breakdown of Хліб замішується вранці на кухні.

• вранці: in the morning
• хліб: the bread
• на: in
• кухня: the kitchen
• замішуватися: to be kneaded

Questions & Answers about Хліб замішується вранці на кухні.

What part of speech is замішується, and what does the suffix -ся signify?

Замішується is a verb in the 3rd person singular present tense. The suffix -ся marks the reflexive/passive voice, showing that the action is done to хліб (the bread), not by it.

Why is замішується in the passive voice rather than active?

In Ukrainian, adding -ся to a verb often creates a passive construction. Since bread can’t knead itself, using the passive focuses on the process happening to the bread without naming the doer.

What tense and aspect is замішується?

It’s in the present tense (describing an ongoing or habitual action) and is imperfective (it highlights the process of kneading, not its completion).

Where is the stress in замішується?

The stress falls on the syllable -шу-: за-мішу-ється.

How can you break down замішується into prefix, root, suffix(es), and ending?

• Prefix: за- (“start of an action”)
• Root: -мiш- (“knead”)
• Suffix: -ува- (imperfective aspect marker)
• Reflexive particle: -ся (passive/reflexive)
• Ending: -ється (3rd person singular present)

What kind of word is вранці, and how does it function here?

Вранці is an adverb of time meaning “in the morning.” It answers when the kneading takes place and doesn’t need a separate preposition in this usage.

Why do we say на кухні, and what case is кухні?

We use the preposition на plus the prepositional (locative) case to indicate location in many rooms and places. Кухня in the prepositional singular becomes кухні, so на кухні means “in the kitchen.”

Can you change the word order—for example, say Вранці на кухні замішується хліб?

Yes. Ukrainian word order is fairly flexible. Placing вранці or на кухні at the beginning shifts emphasis to time or place without changing the core meaning.

How would you express the same idea in the active voice?

Name the agent as the subject, for example: Вранці пекар замішує хліб на кухні. (“In the morning the baker kneads the bread in the kitchen.”)

If you wanted to mention the agent in the passive construction, how would you do it?

Add the agent in the instrumental case (no preposition):
Хліб замішується пекарем вранці на кухні.
(“The bread is being kneaded by the baker in the morning in the kitchen.”)

Why is хліб in the nominative case instead of the accusative?

In a passive sentence with -ся, the noun undergoing the action becomes the grammatical subject and stays in the nominative. In an active sentence (“the baker kneads the bread”), хліб would be in the accusative.