En la guardería le piden que traiga un biberón limpio y un babero.

En la guardería means at the daycare / in the daycare. Here, en is used because it tells you the place where something happens.

• En la guardería = at the daycare
• A la guardería would usually suggest movement to the daycare

So in this sentence, the idea is not going to the daycare, but what happens there.

In Spain, guardería commonly means daycare or nursery for very young children, especially babies and toddlers.

It is a very natural word in Peninsular Spanish. Depending on the country, other terms may also be used, but in Spain guardería is standard and very common.

Le is an indirect object pronoun. It means something like to him, to her, or to you (formal singular), depending on context.

So le piden literally means:

• they ask him/her
• they ask you (formal)

Spanish often uses these pronouns even when English would not. The sentence does not specify exactly who the person is, so context would tell you whether it means a mother, father, guardian, etc.

Spanish often leaves out subject pronouns when they are understood from the verb ending.

• piden = they ask / they request

So there is no need to say ellos piden unless you want extra emphasis or contrast.

In this sentence, the unstated they probably refers to the daycare staff.

Because the sentence has two different subjects:

• they ask = the daycare staff
• he/she/you bring = the person being asked

When Spanish uses verbs like pedir que, querer que, esperar que, etc., and the second action has a different subject, it normally uses:

• pedir que + subjunctive

So:

• Le piden que traiga... = They ask him/her/you to bring...

If the subject stayed the same, Spanish might use an infinitive instead.

Because after pedir que, Spanish normally uses the subjunctive.

Here, traiga is the present subjunctive of traer.

This is not because the action is unreal in some dramatic sense; it is simply the normal grammar after a verb of requesting, influence, or desire.

A useful pattern to remember is:

• pedir que + subjunctive
• querer que + subjunctive
• necesitar que + subjunctive

So le piden que traiga is exactly what you would expect grammatically.

Traiga is the present subjunctive, third person singular, of traer.

It can correspond to:

• that he bring
• that she bring
• that you bring (formal singular)

Because the pronoun le is also ambiguous, context is what tells you who is being addressed.

In Spanish, adjectives usually come after the noun.

So the normal order is:

• un biberón limpio = a clean bottle
• un babero nuevo = a new bib

Putting the adjective before the noun is possible in some cases, but it often changes the tone, emphasis, or meaning. Here, the ordinary and natural order is noun + adjective.

Normally, no. It most naturally describes only biberón.

So the sentence is understood as:

• a clean bottle
• and a bib

If the speaker wanted clean to clearly apply to both nouns, Spanish would more likely say something like:

• un biberón y un babero limpios

The singular limpio matches only biberón.

They are simply masculine nouns in Spanish, so they take:

• un biberón
• un babero

Their grammatical gender does not have anything to do with biological gender. It is just a property of the noun.

Also, the adjective must agree with the noun it modifies:

• biberón limpio
• not biberón limpia

They are two different baby-related items:

• biberón = baby bottle
• babero = bib

They may look a little similar because both begin with bib-/bab-, but they are completely different words.

Yes, but only formal singular you.

In Spain:

• te piden = they ask you (informal singular)
• le piden = they ask you (formal singular), or him/her

So if you saw this sentence by itself, le could refer to:

• a parent being spoken about
• a person being addressed formally

Context would decide.

It can be thought of as either, depending on how literally you want to understand it.

• pedir often means to ask for or to request
• pedir que + subjunctive means to ask someone to do something

So here, le piden que traiga... is naturally understood as:

• they ask him/her/you to bring...
• or more formally, they request that he/she/you bring...

In everyday English, ask is usually the most natural translation.

Because the person is not expressed as a full noun phrase; it is only represented by the pronoun le.

If you used a full noun, you might say something like:

• En la guardería le piden a la madre que traiga...

There, a la madre appears because it is an indirect object phrase clarifying who le refers to.

But when you just use le, no extra a is needed.

Biberón has a written accent on the last syllable: -rón.

That tells you the stress falls there:

• bi-be-RÓN

This is useful because many Spanish words ending in n are normally stressed on the second-to-last syllable unless there is an accent mark. The accent shows that this word is an exception.