"¿Tu madre te compra la ropa?"
Translation:Does your mother buy you clothes?
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I would say so, IMO the best translation is "Does your mother buy your clothes?". If you omit the article, it would sound more like a question you would ask a kid who's wearing ragged clothes.
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Agree. DL accepts "Does your mother buy your clothes?" and that translation both clears up the kid-wearing-ragged-clothes ambiguity and makes the insult (at least in the US) more apparent.
This is important for building up my repertoire of Spanish-language sick burns.
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¿Quien te te compra la ropa, tu madre.?. en cualquier caso nunca le digas a alguien eso.
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I've noticed with a lot of these sorts of questions that while does is technically the right tense, most people would use the word did in this sort of sentence.
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Is the "la" required here? Could this also be correct: ¿Tu madre te compra ropa?
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This actually means Does your mother buy your clothes (for you)?
Since te is in the sentence, it's more natural to use la instead of tu (ropa) as we know it is your clothing.
On the other hand, ¿Tu madre te compra ropa? is also a correct translation for the English sentence, but doesn't say your clothing (although it's pretty obvious it's yours).
EDIT: So… with la it means your (clothing) [in general], but, without it, it just means [some] clothing (not specifying that she buys you all of your clothing, but only some of it).
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I replied, "Did your mother buy you cloths" how do we know to use Does, not Did?
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¿Tu madre te compra la ropa? = Does your mom buy your clothes? (she pretty much buys all your clothes)
¿Tu madre te compra ropa? = Does your mom buy you clothes? (occasionally)
