Yengem de çok misafirperver; gelen herkese çay veriyor.

Yenge is the basic noun, and -m means my.

So:

• yenge = sister-in-law / aunt by marriage
• yengem = my sister-in-law / my aunt by marriage

This is a very common Turkish pattern:

• ablam = my older sister
• annem = my mother
• teyzem = my maternal aunt

So Yengem is a possessed noun, not a separate word for my sister-in-law.

Here, de means too / also.

So Yengem de çok misafirperver means something like:

• My sister-in-law is also very hospitable
• My sister-in-law, too, is very hospitable

This usually implies that someone else mentioned earlier is hospitable as well.

Important: this de is written separately because it is a particle meaning also/too.

Compare:

• evde = in the house (-de as a suffix)
• ben de = me too (de as a separate word)

Because this de is the additive particle meaning also/too, and in standard Turkish it is written separately.

So:

• Yengem de = my sister-in-law too

But suffixes are attached:

• evde = in the house
• okulda = at school

A useful rule:

• if it means also/too, write it separately
• if it means in/on/at, it is usually a suffix attached to the noun

Misafirperver means hospitable.

Çok means very here, so:

• çok misafirperver = very hospitable

In Turkish, çok can mean either:

• very, before adjectives/adverbs
• many/a lot, with nouns or verbs depending on context

Here it modifies an adjective, so it means very.

Examples:

• çok güzel = very beautiful
• çok hızlı = very fast
• çok insan = many people

Gelen comes from the verb gelmek (to come), but here it functions like a participle, describing a noun.

So:

• gelmek = to come
• gelen = coming / who comes / that comes

In this sentence, gelen describes herkes:

• gelen herkes = everyone who comes

This is a very common Turkish way to make relative clauses.

Compare:

• gelen adam = the man who comes / the man coming
• konuşan kadın = the woman who is speaking / who speaks
• çalışan insanlar = people who work / working people

So gelen is verb-based, but it behaves adjectivally here.

Turkish usually does not use relative pronouns like who, which, or that in the same way English does.

Instead, it often uses participles:

• gelen herkes = literally the everyone-coming
• natural English: everyone who comes

This is a key feature of Turkish grammar.

Examples:

• bana yardım eden kişi = the person who helps me
• dün gördüğüm adam = the man that I saw yesterday
• kapıda bekleyen çocuk = the child waiting at the door

So gelen herkese is built from that same structure.

Herkes means everyone.

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

So:

• herkes = everyone
• herkese = to everyone

In this sentence:

• gelen herkese çay veriyor = she gives tea to everyone who comes

The dative is used because vermek (to give) commonly takes:

• the thing given
• the person receiving it in the dative

Examples:

• Bana kitap verdi. = She gave me a book.
• Çocuğa su veriyor. = She is giving water to the child.
• Misafirlere çay veriyor. = She gives tea to the guests.

Because vermek needs the receiver in the dative case, not the accusative.

Compare the roles:

• çay = the thing being given
• herkese = the person/people receiving it

So:

• herkese çay veriyor = she gives tea to everyone

If you said herkesi, that would be accusative, and it would mean everyone as a direct object, which does not fit this sentence.

Very roughly:

• -e / -a = to
• -i / -ı / -u / -ü = definite direct object

Because çay here is an indefinite or non-specific direct object.

In Turkish, an unmarked direct object often means something general or indefinite:

• çay veriyor = she gives tea / serves tea

If you say çayı veriyor, it usually refers to a specific tea already known in context:

• çayı veriyor = she is giving the tea / the tea in question

So in this sentence, çay is more natural because it means she serves tea in general to visitors.

Compare:

• Kitap okuyor. = He is reading a book / reading books.
• Kitabı okuyor. = He is reading the book.

Yes, veriyor is the present continuous form, and literally it often means is giving. But in modern Turkish, this form is also very commonly used for habitual actions.

So here:

• gelen herkese çay veriyor can mean she gives tea to everyone who comes
• it does not have to mean only right now at this moment

This is very normal in Turkish.

Examples:

• Sabahları kahve içiyorum. = I drink coffee in the mornings.
• Otobüsle gidiyor. = He goes by bus.
• Misafirlere çay veriyor. = She gives tea to guests.

Turkish also has the aorist for habitual meaning, but the present continuous is extremely common in everyday speech for repeated or characteristic actions.

Yes, verir is possible, but it changes the feel slightly.

• veriyor sounds natural, conversational, and vivid
• verir sounds more like a general rule, habit, or characteristic

So:

• gelen herkese çay veriyor = she gives tea to everyone who comes
• gelen herkese çay verir = she gives tea to everyone who comes / she is the kind of person who gives tea to everyone who comes

Both can work, but veriyor is very natural in everyday Turkish.

Because Turkish is typically a verb-final language.

A very common neutral order is:

• subject
• other information
• object
• verb

So:

• Yengem de = subject/topic
• çok misafirperver = description
• gelen herkese = to everyone who comes
• çay = tea
• veriyor = gives/is giving

The final verb is one of the most important patterns for English speakers to get used to in Turkish.

Yes. The order is very natural for Turkish.

Literally it is:

• to everyone who comes tea gives

In English, we would usually say:

• she gives tea to everyone who comes

In Turkish, the recipient phrase (gelen herkese) comes before the object (çay), and the verb stays at the end.

Turkish word order is somewhat flexible, but this version sounds normal and smooth.

The semicolon links two closely related parts:

• Yengem de çok misafirperver
• gelen herkese çay veriyor

The second part explains or supports the first one. In other words, it shows why she is being described as hospitable.

You could think of it like:

• My sister-in-law is also very hospitable; she gives tea to everyone who comes.

A period or sometimes a comma might also appear in other contexts, but the semicolon nicely connects the two related ideas.

Yes, usually it does.

Because of de (too/also), the speaker is normally adding my sister-in-law to a list of people already being discussed.

For example:

• Annem çok misafirperver. Yengem de çok misafirperver.
  • My mother is very hospitable. My sister-in-law is too.

So de often signals that this sentence is part of a larger conversation.

Yes. It behaves like a regular adjective.

Examples:

• misafirperver bir aile = a hospitable family
• çok misafirperver insanlar = very hospitable people
• Yengem misafirperver. = My sister-in-law is hospitable.

In Turkish, adjectives do not change form for singular/plural or gender, so misafirperver stays the same.

Yes, that literal idea can help you understand the structure.

Break it down like this:

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

So:

• gelen herkese = to everyone who comes

That literal breakdown is useful for learning, even though in natural English we would not usually say to every coming person.

It has two linked parts:

1. Yengem de çok misafirperver

   • My sister-in-law is also very hospitable

2. gelen herkese çay veriyor

   • (She) gives tea to everyone who comes

The second part has an omitted subject. Turkish often leaves out the subject when it is already clear from context. Here, the subject is understood to be Yengem.

So the full idea is:

• My sister-in-law is also very hospitable; she gives tea to everyone who comes.