"¿A ti te interesa el béisbol?"
Translation:Are you interested in baseball?
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If "A ti" means "you" why use "te", which also means "you"? Wouldn't that make the answer "Are you you interested in baseball"?
The te is necessary (because the sentence means Does baseball interest you? and te is the object form of tú). The A ti is for emphasis. It's like saying "You, are you interested in baseball?
Really tho the a ti is kinda uneccesary. Because the person your speaking to will know your speaking to them so why the emphasis when te already does it
I think its more like are you yourself interested in baseball, to emphasize you.
Note that «ti» does NOT carry an accent/tilde. See:
https://educacion.uncomo.com/articulo/como-se-escribe-ti-o-ti-31838.html
Notice how the verb is "interesa" and there is no "tú"? The subject is "el béisbol" and the question is whether it interests you. See also the optional/emphatic "a ti" before the direct object "te"?
Al béisbol is used in reference to playing the sport. El béisbol is referring to the sport.
No, that's not how it works. "Al" is nothing more than "a el"--"to the" or "at the". As explained on this page before, "interesar" is a verb like "gustar" and "el béisbol" is the subject of the sentence. Baseball is interesting to you. And the subject of a sentence can never be the object of a preposition.
Question: I've noticed that we don't use "A mi me" or " A ti te" when we talk about sports or music in general but we do use it when speaking about a specific sport. Is this done for every verb or just reflexive verbs?
This is not reflexive. Reflexive means the subject and the direct object refer to the same person/thing.
It's not "a mi me" or "a ti te". It's "¿[A ti] [te interesa] el béisbol?" Literally, "To you, does baseball interest you?" The "a ti" part is optional and included for emphasis.
When using something other than just pronouns, though, it's needed:
Maria is interested in baseball -- A Maria le interesa el béisbol.
Why in Spanish here's "el", and in English translation there's no "the"?
Because the two languages use articles differently. In Spanish, subjects need some kind of determiner. English does not have this requirement.
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Thank you, Rae. I was looking for this question, and a response, and here it IS! Here's a Lingot.
why is that sometimes you have "nos interesa en " and other times it is "a ti ". I find this extremely complicated