Tira el dau una altra vegada.

Tira comes from the verb tirar.

In this sentence, tira is the informal singular imperative — in other words, a command said to you when speaking casually to one person.

So:

• tirar = to throw / to roll
• tira = roll! / throw!

In a board-game context, tirar el dau means to roll the die.

Because this is a command, not a normal present-tense statement.

Compare:

• tires el dau = you roll the die
• tira el dau = roll the die!

For most -ar verbs in Catalan, the tu imperative looks like the ell/ella present form:

• tirar → ell/ella tira
• command to tu → tira!

El dau means the die, while un dau means a die.

In a game situation, the die is usually already known and present, so Catalan naturally uses the definite article:

• Tira el dau = Roll the die

If you said Tira un dau, it could sound more like roll a die in a more general or less specific sense.

Dau means die, the singular of the small cube used in games.

Its plural is:

• dau = die
• daus = dice

This is a word English speakers often need to notice carefully, because English commonly uses dice even for one in casual speech, but Catalan clearly distinguishes singular and plural.

Una altra vegada means another time or, more naturally in English here, again.

So the full sentence means:

• Roll the die again.

This expression is very common in Catalan.

Other ways to say again include:

• un altre cop
• de nou

So you may also hear:

• Tira el dau un altre cop.
• Tira el dau de nou.

Because vegada is a feminine noun.

So the words that go with it must also be feminine:

• una = feminine form of a / one
• altra = feminine form of other / another

That is why we get:

• una altra vegada

Compare with a masculine noun:

• un altre cop = another time / again

Here cop is masculine, so Catalan uses un altre.

It is correct and natural, but another very common version is:

• Torna a tirar el dau.

This literally means Return to roll the die, but in natural English it also means Roll the die again.

So both are good:

• Tira el dau una altra vegada.
• Torna a tirar el dau.

The first uses an expression meaning again. The second uses the structure tornar a + infinitive, which is very common in Catalan for to do something again.

The given word order is very natural:

• Tira el dau una altra vegada.

Catalan does allow some flexibility, but not every order sounds equally natural.

For example, you might also hear:

• Tira una altra vegada el dau.

This is understandable, but the original sentence sounds smoother in many contexts.

Putting una altra vegada at the end is a very normal place for a phrase like again.

It is an informal command, directed to one person using tu.

If you wanted the formal singular version, you would say:

• Tiri el dau una altra vegada.

If you were speaking to more than one person informally:

• Tireu el dau una altra vegada.

So the original sentence is the casual you form.

Dau is pronounced roughly like dow in English, as in how or now, but with a d at the beginning.

A rough guide for the whole sentence:

• Tira el dau una altra vegada
• approximately: TEE-ruh el DOW OO-nuh AL-truh vuh-GAH-duh

A few useful notes:

• tira: the i is like English ee
• dau: rhymes roughly with now
• altra: the l and t are both pronounced
• vegada: the stressed syllable is ga

Not always. Like many verbs, tirar has several related meanings depending on context.

Common meanings include:

• to throw
• to pull
• to toss
• in games, to roll

So in this sentence, even though the basic idea of tirar is something like throw, the natural translation is roll the die.

That is why you should learn the whole expression:

• tirar el dau = to roll the die