焼ける

1. Origins, structure, and basic meaning

• Structure: 焼ける is read as やける and is an intransitive verb for food becoming cooked by heat or an object becoming burned.
• Basic usage: The changing item takes が, as in パンが焼ける and 板が黒く焼ける; context selects baking or burning.

2. Common pitfalls and similar expressions

• Contrast with 焼く
  • 焼く is transitive and presents someone cooking or burning an object; 焼ける presents the object undergoing the change.
• Cooking versus damage
  • The same verb can describe proper cooking or excessive blackening, so the object and resulting condition determine the sense.