¿Qué camisa te compro?

Question

What is the meaning of the above question, Is it "what shirt I buy for you?"

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

What shirt should I buy for you?
Often when people use the present indicative to ask a question like this, they're asking for directions or they're asking if they should do something. When I ask a Spanish-speaking person if they want me to translate something for them, I would say, "¿Te lo traduzco?"

Thanks for your answer. But note my objection. I do not understnad how COMPRO come here in picture when Subject of the sentence is in TU form, because it is not past tense too? - Pravin_101, May 12, 2012

The subject of the sentence is not tú, it's yo. "Yo compro." "Te" means "for you." Past tense would be "compró." - Pitágoras, May 12, 2012

Answer 2

Qué camisa te compro? = What shirt should i buy you.

Qué camisa te compró? What shirt did he/she buy you?

Answer 3

Why is this did you buy for me? I would think it would be "What shirt did you buy?"

Thanks for your answer. But note my objection. I do not understnad how COMPRO come here in picture when Subject of the sentence is in TU form, because it is not past tense too? - Pravin_101, May 12, 2012

Answer 4

hola Pravin_101,,just for me,,what shirt you bought for me,,,I

Thanks for your answer. But I do not understnad how COMPRO come here in picture when Subject of the sentence is in TU form. Can you elaborate? - Pravin_101, May 12, 2012

Answer 5

¿Qué camisa te compro?

I think the question should be ¿Qué camisa me compro? It means, ¨What shirt should I buy?¨. If you are wanting to keep ¨compro¨.

If you want to keep the ¨te¨ I think it is ¨Qué camisa te compras?¨