Quick translation please!!

Question

I would appreciate help with this...I am stumped! ¿Nos compras el almuerzo a mí y a los otros compañeros de clase?

I was in class when I asked the question. Our teacher gave us a few sites to research for peer review. This site happened to be one of them. I am sorry you feel the need to make rude comments when you do not know the facts behind why I was asking. - edaefra, Nov 14, 2013

Answer 1

¿Nos compras el almuerzo a mí y a los otros compañeros de clase?

Almost as actorgirl said, but: Will you buy lunch for me and the other classmates?

Your teacher is right about translators making mistakes, but wrong in telling you to research this alone. This should have been explained to you in class because the structure of this sentence is one that can be easily missunderstood by both people and translators alike with little experience with contexts and usage of the language.

I said we, because of the "nos" in the sentence.Why is it "you" if it says "nos" ? I am still learning - actorgirl, Nov 15, 2013

Here "nos" is the indirect object, who is affected by the action - 005faa61, Nov 15, 2013

Answer 2

Typing this into the online translator will give you the quickest result.

Unfortunately the online translators are often incorrect. I used a few different ones and my teacher said they were all incorrect. - edaefra, Nov 14, 2013

I'm sorry if anyone took offense to me asking a question. This is my first time in Spanish. The information is difficult for me. I'll be taking it next year in high school also. I'm trying to learn on my own mostly. my teacher isn't much help in class. - edaefra, Nov 15, 2013

Don´t worry too much. What happens is, a lot of people show up demanding answers, often impolitely and w/o showing aANY effort on their own, so sometimes, if it looks like another one of those, people can readily jump to saying ¨why don´t YoU look it up¨ - rogspax, Nov 15, 2013

Stick around, you'll do OK. Filling out your profile more fully will help people to help you. - rogspax, Nov 15, 2013

Edaetra, no offense at all. I think Roger has explained very well. You seem quite articulate, especially high school age, and I think you will do very well. You are correct - your teacher isn´t much help, which is a pity. - 005faa61, Nov 15, 2013

I hope you can find a different teacher for Spanish but in any case, come back here often. - 005faa61, Nov 15, 2013

Answer 3

I said we, because of the "nos" in the sentence.Why is it "you" if it says "nos" ? I am still learning -

An easy misunderstanding actorgirl.

First, you have to remember that ¨nos¨ can be ¨us¨, ¨to us¨ or ¨for us¨, which it is in this case.

Second, the key is the verb ¨compras¨. Note how the verb ends in an ¨S¨

Yo comprO, Tú comprAS, él-ella-Usted comprA, etc etc. So, the S on the end of compras tells you it is (Tú) compras, and thus it is ¨you¨

hope that helps R

Answer 4

I think its something like, Will we buy lunch for me and the other companions in the class? Not positive, but that's what I think it is, or close to. I just translated the unfamiliar word, and then put them in their places in my translation of the words I knew.

I apologize that my frank comment and apparently misguided conclusion earlier, which I have deleted, offended you. As you saw I helped you in another post and am very happy to help those who truly need it and are working on their own. - Jubilado, Nov 15, 2013

You may want to delete your comment above since it doesn't really make much sense now. - Jubilado, Nov 15, 2013