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Tú necesitas la bota azul y la de la niña.

Tú necesitas la bota azul y la de la niña.
You need the blue boot and the girl's.
From Lesson 139:Avoiding repetition (el de, la de, los de, las de)·Spanish (Latin America)

Questions & Answers about Tú necesitas la bota azul y la de la niña.

What does la mean in the phrase la de la niña?
It stands in for the noun we just mentioned, la bota (the boot), so we do not have to repeat it. Instead of saying la bota azul y la bota de la niña (the blue boot and the girl's boot), we use la to mean "the one".
The English translation says "the girl's". Why is it translated to la de la niña?
Spanish does not use an apostrophe-s for possession. Instead, you show ownership using de (of). The phrase literally translates to "the one of the girl". Because we already established we are talking about a boot, la de steps in for "the boot of".
If the girl had multiple boots, how would this sentence change?
The replacement article has to match the gender and number of the noun it replaces. If you needed the girl's boots (plural), you would use the plural article las instead of la: Tú necesitas la bota azul y las de la niña.
Why does Tú have an accent mark at the beginning of the sentence?
The accent mark tells the difference between tú (the subject pronoun meaning "you") and tu (the possessive word meaning "your"). Here, it is the subject doing the action for the verb necesitas, so it needs the accent.

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