"¿Quién preocupó a mamá?" How does this translate?

Question

How do you translate this question:

¿Quién preocupó a mamá?

It doesn't seem that "Who worried mother" is how it should be translated.. is there a better translation?

Answer 1

Yes, it is "Who worried mom?" In other words, "Who caused mom to get worried?"

Answer 2

¿Quién preocupó a mamá?

This doesn´t make sense to me.

How about ¿Quién se preocupó por mamá ...... Who worried about Mother?

I agree, Julian. I thought it was kind of odd myself.. that's why I asked. - Gillygaloo, Jul 27, 2011

I would say "Who worried about mother?" as "¿Quién se preocupó por mamá?" - gintar77, Jul 27, 2011

I agree. This is the problem with trying to figure out strange sentence constructions - 005faa61, Jul 27, 2011

Because the original phrase would normally be something like "¿Quién le hizo preocupar a mamá?" if this is in fact what is being said - - 005faa61, Jul 27, 2011

Answer 3

"Who worried to my mother" Yes.

Tocayo, debe ser "about my mother" - 005faa61, Jul 27, 2011

Answer 4

I don't know Sonrisa, I did not write it. It's in a Spanish Book I'm using to learn Spanish. And they didn't translate it to English for me, so I'm not sure.

Here is the question, with the following answer....

¿Quién preocupó a mamá? Roberto preocupó a mamá.

Gintar explained (see his post above). Great question, Gillygaloo! - SonrisaDelSol, Jul 27, 2011

Answer 5

¿Quién preocupó a mamá?

Sorry, Gillygaloo, but I'm going to answer your question with another question

Why wouldn't this be, "¿Quién le preocupó a mamá?

Because preocupar takes a direct object. - gintar77, Jul 27, 2011

Ok, thanks, gintar! - SonrisaDelSol, Jul 27, 2011

I wonder when I'm going to get these IO's and DO's correct! - SonrisaDelSol, Jul 27, 2011

Answer 6

Quién tiene preocupada a mamá?

This makes more sense .