wǒ dài shǒutào gěi lúntāi dǎqì.

In Mandarin, different kinds of things you wear often use different verbs.

• 戴 is used for things worn on the hands, head, face, neck, etc.
  • 戴手套 = wear gloves
  • 戴帽子 = wear a hat
  • 戴眼镜 = wear glasses
• 穿 is used more for clothes you put on your body
  • 穿衣服 = wear clothes
  • 穿裤子 = wear pants
  • 穿鞋 = wear shoes

So 戴手套 is the natural choice.

Here, 给 introduces the thing that receives the action: 轮胎.

So 给轮胎打气 means something like:

• pump air into the tire
• literally, give the tire an air-pumping action

This is a very common pattern in spoken Chinese:

• 给车加油 = add fuel to the car
• 给花浇水 = water the flowers
• 给手机充电 = charge the phone

So in this sentence, 给 is not really just give in the basic dictionary sense. It helps link the action to the affected object.

Yes, 打气 is a very common expression.

Literally:

• 打 = hit / do / perform many kinds of actions
• 气 = air / gas

But together, 打气 means:

• to pump air into
• to inflate

For example:

• 给轮胎打气 = inflate a tire
• 给篮球打气 = inflate a basketball

Be careful: 打气 can also mean to cheer someone on / boost morale in another context. But with 轮胎, it clearly means inflate.

Chinese word order often goes:

subject + secondary action/state + main action + object/target

Here:

• 我 = subject
• 戴手套 = wearing gloves
• 给轮胎打气 = inflate the tire

So the sentence is structured like:

I, wearing gloves, inflate the tire.

The 戴手套 part sets the situation or accompanying action before the main action.

English often does this differently, for example:

• I wear gloves while pumping up the tire
• I put on gloves to pump up the tire
• I inflate the tire wearing gloves

Chinese commonly places that kind of information before the main verb phrase.

By itself, 戴手套 can be a little flexible depending on context.

In this sentence, it most naturally means:

• wearing gloves
• or with gloves on

If you want to make the ongoing state especially clear, Chinese often uses 着:

• 我戴着手套给轮胎打气。
  • I inflate the tire while wearing gloves.

If you want to clearly say put on gloves first, you might say:

• 我先戴上手套，再给轮胎打气。
  • I first put on gloves, then inflate the tire.

So the original sentence is natural, but context decides whether the focus is the state or the action of putting them on.

Mandarin does not mark tense the way English does. A sentence like this can refer to present, past, or future depending on context.

我戴手套给轮胎打气。 could mean:

• I inflate the tire wearing gloves
• I wore gloves to inflate the tire
• I will wear gloves to inflate the tire

If the speaker wants to make time clear, they usually add a time word or an aspect marker:

• 昨天我戴着手套给轮胎打气。 = Yesterday I inflated the tire wearing gloves.
• 我正在戴手套给轮胎打气。 = I am pumping up the tire wearing gloves.
• 等会儿我戴手套给轮胎打气。 = Later I’ll inflate the tire wearing gloves.

So tense is usually understood from context rather than built into the verb.

Measure words are mainly needed when a noun is counted or specified with a number or demonstrative.

For example:

• 一副手套 = one pair of gloves
• 一个轮胎 = one tire
• 那个轮胎 = that tire

But in your sentence, neither noun is being counted. They appear as general objects within the action:

• 戴手套 = wear gloves
• 给轮胎打气 = pump up the tire

So no measure word is needed here.

It could be either in theory, but most naturally it is understood as a tire or the tire.

Chinese nouns usually do not change form for singular vs. plural. Context tells you which one is meant.

So 轮胎 can mean:

• a tire
• the tire
• tires, if the context supports that

If you want to make it clearly plural, you would usually add more context, such as:

• 给几个轮胎打气 = inflate several tires
• 给所有轮胎打气 = inflate all the tires

In the original sentence, singular is the most likely reading.

Yes. Both are correct, but they feel a little different.

• 打气 is very common and everyday.
• 充气 is also correct and can sound a bit more formal or technical.

Examples:

• 给轮胎打气 = pump up the tire
• 给轮胎充气 = inflate the tire

In normal conversation, 打气 is extremely natural.

They are very close in meaning.

• 给轮胎打气 focuses on the tire as the thing receiving the action.
• 往轮胎里打气 focuses more on the direction: pump air into the tire.

Compare:

• 给轮胎打气
• 往轮胎里打气

Both are natural. The first is a bit simpler and very common.

Usually, you would keep it.

• 我戴手套给轮胎打气。 = natural
• 我戴手套打轮胎气。 = not natural

You can, however, use other structures:

• 我戴着手套给轮胎打气。
• 我戴着手套往轮胎里打气。
• 我戴着手套给轮胎充气。

So 给 is an important part of this particular phrasing.

It can suggest that idea, yes, but it does not explicitly mark purpose.

The sentence can be understood as:

• I inflate the tire while wearing gloves
• and possibly also I wear gloves to do it

If you want to make the purpose very explicit, you could say:

• 我为了给轮胎打气，戴上了手套。
  • I put on gloves in order to inflate the tire.

Or:

• 我戴上手套去给轮胎打气。
  • I put on gloves and then went to inflate the tire.

So the original sentence is a natural, compact way to express the situation, but it leaves some details to context.