Learn Spanish (Latin America): El café me quita el sueño.

We only attach pronouns directly to the end of affirmative commands (when you are telling someone to do something, like quítamelo for "take it away from me!"). Because this sentence is just a normal statement stating a fact ("coffee takes away..."), the pronoun me stays in its standard spot right before the conjugated verb.

Why does the sentence say El café instead of just starting with Café?

In Spanish, when you talk about a noun in a general sense (all coffee) and it is the subject of the sentence, you must use a definite article (el, la, los, or las). While in English we just say "Coffee takes away...", Spanish requires El café.

Why is it me quita el sueño instead of quita mi sueño (takes away my sleepiness)?

When talking about body parts, clothing, or personal physical states (like sleepiness), Spanish usually avoids possessive words like mi. Instead, it uses an indirect object pronoun like me to show who is affected, and a simple "the" (el) for the thing itself. It literally translates to "it takes the sleepiness away from me."

Doesn't sueño mean "dream"? How do I know it means "sleepiness" here?