Ese tipo tiene mal de la azotea si piensa que puede ganar la lotería todos los días.

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English Translation

That guy is crazy if he thinks he can win the lottery every day.

“tiene mal”, I wonder if it would be better with está: “está mal de la azotea”.

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#2

I’d say está for sure.

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#3

Web search:

  • "tiene mal de la azotea": yields approximately 45,800 results.
  • "está mal de la azotea": yields approximately 3,120 results.
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#4

Interesting. It seems the expression is too long for Ngrams, so I searched for “tiene mal de” and “está mal de”, and it shows the opposite, with a clear majority using está:

Interestingly, adding “la” to the search expression gives no results at all for “tiene mal de la”: