Babaanne gelen herkese çay ikram ediyor.

Babaanne specifically means paternal grandmother — your father’s mother.

Turkish often distinguishes:

• babaanne = father’s mother
• anneanne = mother’s mother
• büyükanne = grandmother in a more general sense

So this sentence is more specific than English grandma can be.

Gelen comes from gelmek = to come.

Here, -en / -an turns the verb into a participle that works like who comes / coming.

So:

• gelmek = to come
• gelen = coming, the one who comes, who comes

In this sentence:

• gelen herkes = everyone who comes

This is a very common Turkish way to make relative clauses without using a separate word for who.

Because Turkish usually builds this idea with a participle, not with a separate relative pronoun.

English:

• everyone who comes

Turkish:

• gelen herkes
• literally something like the coming everyone

Then the dative ending is added:

• gelen herkese = to everyone who comes

So Turkish packs the idea of who comes into gelen.

Because herkes means everyone, but here it is the recipient of the action.

The verb phrase ikram etmek often takes the person receiving something in the dative case:

• -e / -a = to

So:

• herkes = everyone
• herkese = to everyone

That is why the sentence has:

• gelen herkese çay ikram ediyor
• She is offering tea to everyone who comes

Because gelen is modifying herkes. It describes which everyone.

Think of it like this:

• gelen herkes = everyone who comes
• the main noun is herkes
• gelen is just the modifier

In Turkish, the case ending usually goes on the main noun of the phrase:

• gelen herkes
• gelen herkese
• gelen herkesi

So only herkes changes form here.

Not exactly. İkram etmek means something like:

• to offer
• to serve
• to treat someone to
• sometimes to offer refreshments

So çay ikram etmek is a very natural Turkish expression for:

• to offer tea
• to serve tea

It is more culturally specific and polite than simply give.

Because çay here is an indefinite direct object.

In Turkish:

• an indefinite / non-specific direct object usually has no accusative ending
• a definite / specific direct object usually takes -(y)i / -(y)ı / -(y)u / -(y)ü

So:

• çay ikram ediyor = she offers tea / some tea
• çayı ikram ediyor = she offers the tea / that specific tea

In this sentence, it means tea in a general sense, so çay is correct.

Ediyor is the present continuous form, from etmek.

So literally it means:

• is offering

But in Turkish, the present continuous is often also used for:

• actions happening now
• regular or habitual actions, especially in everyday speech

So this sentence can mean:

• Grandma is offering tea to everyone who comes or
• Grandma offers tea to everyone who comes

The simple present eder is possible in some contexts, but ediyor sounds very natural in spoken Turkish.

Yes, babaanne is the subject.

Turkish has no articles like the or a/an, so nouns appear without them:

• babaanne can mean grandma, the grandma, or in context simply Grandma

Here it is understood as the person doing the action:

• Babaanne ... ikram ediyor = Grandma ... is offering

So you identify the subject from word order, meaning, and the verb — not from an article.

The structure is:

• Babaanne = subject
• gelen herkese = indirect object, to everyone who comes
• çay = direct object
• ikram ediyor = verb

So the pattern is roughly:

• Subject + recipient + thing offered + verb

A very literal breakdown would be:

• Grandma / to everyone coming / tea / is offering

This is normal Turkish word order, with the verb at the end.

Yes. Turkish allows word order changes for emphasis, although the verb usually stays near the end.

For example, you might hear:

• Babaanne çay ikram ediyor gelen herkese
• Gelen herkese babaanne çay ikram ediyor

These can sound more marked or emphatic depending on context.

The most neutral version is the original:

• Babaanne gelen herkese çay ikram ediyor.

In meaning, yes. In grammar, no separate word is needed.

English uses:

• everyone who comes

Turkish uses:

• gelen herkes

So gelen already contains the idea of who comes. Turkish does not need a separate relative pronoun here.

Because herkes is a singular-form word meaning everyone or everybody.

It behaves like a singular collective word, similar to English everyone:

• English: Everyone is here
• Turkish: Herkes burada

So even though it refers to many people, the word itself is not pluralized here.