"Ce va bea mama ta?"

Translation: What will your mother drink?

[Alindan3677]

This is a tricky way of asking what is she going to drink. Because of potential confusion in speaking "ce va" and "ceva" sound exactly the same, the Romanians are either saying:
- Ce bea mama ta (if this is about people sitting at the table and having a drink)
- Ce o sa bea mama ta (if this is about planning something in the near future)

[tipsytree]

Doesn't "Ce va bea mama ta?" stress the question marker "Ce" in spoken Romanian? I've never heard a confusion between "ceva" and "Ce va" in speech, especially since by stressing the "Ce / What", you're setting yourself up to voice the following future tense ("Va +verb, "bea" in this case) together in one breath, further eliminating the confusion...
Also, if using "Ceva", then the sentence order would be taking a poetic license, as it more naturally flows as "Mama ta bea ceva(. / ? / !)".

TL/DR: Not sure there's a confusion to be made but maybe I'm wrong here...

[elisei691856]

Oh yeah it does get pretty confusing sometimes!