"你要冰咖啡吗？"

Translation: Do you want iced coffee?

[elmanisero777]

I know it's technically weird, but can you say "Do you want a cold coffee"?

[Lacococia]

no because cold is Leng 冷. Bing means ice. If you wanted to talk about cold coffee you would say it in a different way or the person might get confused.

[elmanisero777]

But if this was 我要冰水, i would translate it as i want a cold water (not an iced water)

[Matheus666393]

You'd probably get iced water though.

[michisjourdi]

I tripped on this one because i know people who use cold coffee and iced coffee interchangeably to refer to the coffee that comes cold.

[WyattHiebe1]

Ya u could

[Sean608899]

Interesting point!

[Ynhockey]

Does this mean ice coffee like in Starbucks (literally coffee with ice) or like frappucino?

[Ling_G23]

Literally coffee with ice cubes in it.

[Dudbomber]

I think the speaker is missing the "Ni"

[Lipica3]

Don't you want iced coffee should be correct too.

[ptrahan]

Ice coffee was not accepted, needed to say "iced". Ice coffee should be accepted as well.

[WangDeFu1]

Why is "Do" required? I mean, literal translation is "You want iced coffee?" which is not an incorrect English statement.

[bassdewd]

Its incorrect English

[VicCH]

Actually it is incorrect in English.

[sockeye47]

对请 just leave it on my desk

[yuxqii._]

Can ''wnat'' be a typo?

[raphael218350]

I only hear 要冰咖啡吗？

[Grammar_is_hard]

What is the pinyin for 咖啡? Is it "gāfēi" or "kāfēi"? I can't tell.

[Ling_G23]

It's kāfēi.

[LuizAntoni92785]

Iced coffee? I wonder who is going to ask this.

[sockeye47]

Here in America it's a quite common summer drink

[TellTheSeal]

Well, you just asked. ᵔᴥᵔ
Also, someone offering someone an iced coffee might ask this very question.

[Darkdoudou]

the eskimos?

[Diam716754]

Why would i want a iced coffe ?