Babaanne çok misafirperver; gelen herkese önce çay, sonra tatlı ikram ediyor.

Babaanne means father’s mother, so it is specifically paternal grandmother. Turkish often distinguishes:

• babaanne = father’s mother
• anneanne = mother’s mother

So it is more specific than English grandmother.

In Turkish, present-tense sentences with nouns or adjectives often do not need an explicit verb meaning to be.

So:

• Babaanne çok misafirperver. = Grandma is very hospitable.

This is completely normal. You might sometimes see -dir in more formal or emphatic styles, but in everyday Turkish it is usually omitted.

Yes, misafirperver is an adjective meaning hospitable. It describes a person’s character.

In this sentence, it works just like an English adjective in Grandma is very hospitable.

• çok = very
• misafirperver = hospitable

Gelen is a participle formed from gelmek (to come). Literally, it means something like coming or the one who comes.

In this sentence, it modifies herkes:

• gelen herkes = everyone who comes
• gelen herkese = to everyone who comes

This is a very common Turkish structure: a participle comes before the noun or pronoun it describes.

Because gelen adds extra information.

• herkese = to everyone
• gelen herkese = to everyone who comes

So gelen narrows down which everyone we mean: not absolutely everyone in the world, but everyone who comes to visit.

The ending -e is the dative case, which often means to or for.

The verb expression ikram etmek usually takes the person receiving something in the dative:

• birine çay ikram etmek = to offer/serve tea to someone

So here:

• herkes = everyone
• herkese = to everyone

And with gelen:

• gelen herkese = to everyone who comes

Because ikram etmek is a common Turkish compound verb:

• ikram = offering, treat, refreshment
• etmek = to do / to make

Together, ikram etmek means to offer, to serve, or to treat someone to food or drink.

In Turkish, many verbs are built this way, with a noun plus etmek. So writing it as two words is normal.

Both can be possible depending on style, but ikram ediyor is very natural in everyday Turkish.

The form -yor is the present continuous, but in modern Turkish it is also often used for habitual actions:

• ikram ediyor = she is serving / she serves

Here it describes a usual habit: this is what grandma typically does.

ikram eder can also express a habitual meaning, but it may sound more neutral, general, or slightly more formal/literary in some contexts.

Because they are being mentioned in a general, non-specific way.

• çay = tea
• tatlı = dessert / sweets

In Turkish, a specific definite direct object often takes the accusative, but a non-specific one usually does not.

So here the meaning is more like:

• she serves tea first, then dessert
• not the tea and the dessert as specific previously identified items

This is also why there is no word exactly like English a or the.

They show sequence:

• önce = first / before
• sonra = then / afterwards

So:

• önce çay = first tea
• sonra tatlı = then dessert

They tell you the order in which the things are served.

Turkish often leaves out subject pronouns when the subject is already clear from context.

Here, Babaanne is introduced first, so the second clause is naturally understood as still referring to her:

• Babaanne çok misafirperver; ... ikram ediyor.

English usually repeats she, but Turkish often does not need to.

Yes. Turkish typically puts the verb near the end of the clause, so this sentence follows a very natural Turkish pattern:

• gelen herkese = to everyone who comes
• önce çay, sonra tatlı = first tea, then dessert
• ikram ediyor = she serves/offers

So the order is roughly:

[recipient] + [what first / what next] + [verb]

That verb-final structure is very common in Turkish.

The semicolon links two closely related parts:

• Babaanne çok misafirperver
• gelen herkese önce çay, sonra tatlı ikram ediyor

It works a bit like saying:

Grandma is very hospitable; she offers tea first and then dessert to everyone who comes.

So the second clause gives evidence or an example of the first.