Mi tía me quiere regalar un collar sencillo para mi cumpleaños.

Me is the indirect object pronoun and means to me.

So:

• quiere regalar = wants to give as a gift
• me quiere regalar = wants to give me as a gift / wants to give as a gift to me

In more natural English, this sentence means:

• My aunt wants to give me a simple necklace for my birthday.

Spanish often uses short object pronouns like me, te, le, nos, os, les where English uses to me, to you, to him/her, etc.

With a conjugated verb + infinitive structure, Spanish usually gives you two correct options for object pronouns:

• Mi tía me quiere regalar un collar sencillo...
• Mi tía quiere regalarme un collar sencillo...

Both mean the same thing.

So the pronoun can go:

1. before the conjugated verb: me quiere regalar
2. attached to the infinitive: quiere regalarme

Both are very common. Learners should recognize both patterns.

Here it means wants.

The verb querer can mean different things depending on context:

• querer + noun/person can sometimes mean to love or to care for
  • Mi tía me quiere = My aunt loves me / is fond of me
• querer + infinitive means to want to do something
  • Mi tía quiere regalar... = My aunt wants to give...

Because quiere is followed by regalar, the meaning is clearly wants to give.

Regalar means to give as a gift or to gift.
Dar just means to give in a general sense.

So:

• dar un collar = to give a necklace
• regalar un collar = to give a necklace as a present

Since the sentence mentions para mi cumpleaños, regalar is especially appropriate.

In Spanish, most descriptive adjectives usually come after the noun.

So:

• un collar sencillo = a simple/plain necklace

That is the normal word order.

Putting the adjective before the noun can sometimes add a more subjective, literary, or emphatic nuance, but for everyday description, noun + adjective is the standard pattern.

Also, sencillo here means something like:

• simple
• plain
• not elaborate

Because collar is a masculine singular noun.

Adjectives in Spanish usually agree with the noun in gender and number:

• collar → masculine singular
• sencillo → masculine singular

Compare:

• un collar sencillo
• una pulsera sencilla

So the adjective changes to match the noun it describes.

It literally means for my birthday, but in natural English it can imply:

• for my birthday
• as a birthday present
• sometimes even on my birthday, depending on context

In Spanish, para often expresses purpose or intended recipient/occasion:

• para mi cumpleaños = for my birthday / as a birthday gift

If you specifically wanted to say on my birthday, Spanish would more directly use something like:

• en mi cumpleaños

But in this sentence, para mi cumpleaños most naturally suggests the necklace is intended as a birthday gift.

Because mi and mí are different words:

• mi = my → possessive adjective
• mí = me after a preposition → pronoun

In this sentence:

• mi cumpleaños = my birthday

So it must be mi without an accent.

Compare:

• para mi cumpleaños = for my birthday
• para mí = for me

This is a very common point of confusion for learners.

Cumpleaños is a fixed noun in Spanish. Even when it refers to one birthday, it keeps the form cumpleaños.

So:

• mi cumpleaños = my birthday
• sus cumpleaños = his/her birthday or their birthdays, depending on context

The word comes from the idea of completing years, which is why it looks plural historically, but you should learn it as a set noun meaning birthday.

Yes, absolutely.

Both are correct:

• Mi tía me quiere regalar un collar sencillo para mi cumpleaños.
• Mi tía quiere regalarme un collar sencillo para mi cumpleaños.

The only difference is the position of me.

This is very common in Spanish when you have:

• a conjugated verb + infinitive
• and an object pronoun

So learners should get comfortable recognizing both versions.

Yes. Mi tía is the subject: the person doing the wanting and the giving.

A quick breakdown:

• Mi tía = subject
• me = indirect object, to me
• quiere regalar = verb phrase, wants to give as a gift
• un collar sencillo = direct object, the thing being given
• para mi cumpleaños = prepositional phrase showing purpose/occasion

So the sentence structure is roughly:

• My aunt
  • wants to give me
    • a simple necklace
      • for my birthday

At the very beginning of the sentence, maybe briefly, yes:

• Mi tía me quiere... could start like My aunt loves me...

But as soon as you hear or read regalar, the meaning becomes clear:

• Mi tía me quiere regalar... = My aunt wants to give me...

This is a good reminder that in Spanish, you often need to wait for the full structure before deciding exactly what a verb means.

In this sentence, collar means necklace.

But collar can also mean collar in other contexts, such as an animal collar. Like many nouns, the exact meaning depends on context.

Here, because of regalar and cumpleaños, the intended meaning is clearly necklace.