I don't speak Spanish very well, but the construction "a mi madre le gustan las mujeres" (to my mother it likes the women) sounds very archaic to me. Does Spanish always use a dative for this, or is there a more common way to say "my mother likes women"?
shareMy Spanish is limited mostly to classroom study, but I think the construction is correct. It sounds impossibly tortured if it's translated literally, but it's not meant to be translated that way. It's a collection of idioms to be translated as idioms. It could read "Mi Madre le gustan las Mujeres", but when referring to a person it is proper to add the personal "A". "le gustar" translates simply as "likes" or possibly "enjoys". To a Spanish speaker this is no more convoluted than its translation "My Mother Likes Women". It's just the normal way to say it.
shareI'm Spanish, and it's absolutely correct.
shareyou should never rely on cheap translations from the internet
shareyeah thats right
Im in Jamaica with the keys under palm trees & the leperchaun sees what my palm reads