Annem ile ben akşam mutfakta çorba yapıyoruz.

Annem means my mother / my mom.

It is made from:

• anne = mother
• -m = my

So:

• anne = mother
• annem = my mother

This is very common in Turkish. Family words often take possessive endings like this:

• babam = my father
• ablam = my older sister
• kardeşim = my sibling

İle means with.

So:

• Annem ile ben = my mother and I / literally my mother with me

In Turkish, ile can connect nouns in a way that often sounds like English and in this kind of sentence.

You may also see:

• Annemle ben = the same meaning, but more natural in everyday speech

That is because ile is often attached to the previous word:

• annem ile → annemle

Turkish and English organize coordination a little differently.

In Turkish, X ile Y literally means X with Y, but in many contexts it works like X and Y.

So:

• Annem ile ben = my mother and I
• literally: my mother with me

This is a normal Turkish way to express two people doing something together.

Yes, ben could often be left out.

Turkish verbs already show the subject, so yapıyoruz already means we are doing/making.

Because of that, Turkish often drops subject pronouns unless they are needed for emphasis or clarity.

So these are both possible:

• Annem ile ben akşam mutfakta çorba yapıyoruz.
• Annemle akşam mutfakta çorba yapıyoruz.

Including ben makes the subject more explicit: my mother and I.

Here akşam means in the evening / this evening / tonight, depending on context.

Turkish often uses time words without a preposition and without a case ending when they function as time expressions.

So:

• akşam = in the evening
• bugün = today
• yarın = tomorrow
• sabah = in the morning

English needs words like in, on, or at, but Turkish often does not.

Mutfakta means in the kitchen.

It is made from:

• mutfak = kitchen
• -ta / -te / -da / -de = the locative ending, meaning in / at / on

So:

• mutfak = kitchen
• mutfakta = in the kitchen

The ending appears as -ta here because of Turkish sound rules:

• mutfak ends in a voiceless consonant (k)
• so -da/de becomes -ta/te

Turkish does not have articles like English a/an or the.

So çorba can mean:

• soup
• a soup
• sometimes even the soup

The exact meaning depends on context.

In this sentence, çorba yapıyoruz naturally means we are making soup.

Yapıyoruz means we are making / we do depending on context, but here it means we are making.

It is built like this:

• yap- = do / make
• -ıyor- = present continuous marker
• -uz = we

So:

• yapıyorum = I am making
• yapıyorsun = you are making
• yapıyor = he/she/it is making
• yapıyoruz = we are making

Because the subject is Annem ile ben (my mother and I), the verb must be first person plural: we are making.

This is because of vowel harmony.

The present continuous marker has four common forms:

• -ıyor
• -iyor
• -uyor
• -üyor

The form depends on the vowel in the verb stem.

Here the verb is yap-, and the relevant vowel is a, so the correct form is:

• yapıyor-

Then with the we ending:

• yapıyoruz

Compare:

• geliyoruz = we are coming
• oturuyoruz = we are sitting
• görüyoruz = we are seeing

No, it is not the only possible order.

Turkish word order is flexible, although the verb usually comes at the end.

This sentence has:

• Annem ile ben = subject
• akşam = time
• mutfakta = place
• çorba = object
• yapıyoruz = verb

A very neutral order is:

• Subject + Time + Place + Object + Verb

But Turkish can move parts around for emphasis. For example:

• Akşam annem ile ben mutfakta çorba yapıyoruz.
• Mutfakta annem ile ben akşam çorba yapıyoruz.

These can all be grammatical, though the emphasis changes.

Yes, in a literal word-for-word sense, yapmak means to do / to make, so çorba yapıyoruz is literally we are doing/making soup.

But in natural English, you would say:

• we are making soup

Turkish uses yapmak in many places where English uses make:

• yemek yapmak = to cook / make food
• kahve yapmak = to make coffee
• çorba yapmak = to make soup

Yes, you could say:

• Annem ve ben akşam mutfakta çorba yapıyoruz.

This also means My mother and I are making soup in the kitchen in the evening.

The difference is roughly:

• ve = and
• ile = with, but often functions like and in this kind of sentence

Both are possible, but annemle ben or annem ile ben is a very natural Turkish way to say it.

Because Annem ile ben means my mother and I, which is we.

Any subject that includes I + someone else takes a first person plural verb in Turkish.

So:

• Ben yapıyorum. = I am making.
• Annem ile ben yapıyoruz. = My mother and I are making.

The verb agrees with the whole subject, not just with ben alone.