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Mi hermana tiene que planchar su ropa.

Mi hermana tiene que planchar su ropa.
My sister has to iron her clothes.
From Lesson 58:Obligation (tener que)·Spanish (Spain)

Questions & Answers about Mi hermana tiene que planchar su ropa.

Why is there a que between tiene and planchar?
To say that someone "has to" do something, Spanish uses the special phrase tener que followed by the action. If you leave out the que, the verb tener just means "to have" in the sense of owning something.
Why doesn't the verb planchar change to match "my sister"?
In the tener que structure, you only conjugate (change) the verb tener. Because the sister is the one who has to do the chore, we use tiene. The action she has to do (planchar) stays in its dictionary form, which is called the infinitive.
If the English translation is "clothes" (plural), why is it su ropa instead of sus ropas?
In Spanish, ropa is almost always used as a singular word to mean "clothes" in general. It works a lot like the English word "clothing". Because the word ropa is singular, we must use the singular possessive word su.
Does su specifically mean "her"?
su can mean "his", "her", "their", or formal "your". In Spanish, this word doesn't change based on the owner's gender. We know it means "her" in this sentence simply because we are already talking about mi hermana (my sister).

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