Eu vou ligar para você daqui a seis minutos.

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Breakdown of Eu vou ligar para você daqui a seis minutos.

• você: you
• ir: to go (future auxiliary)
• para: for

Questions & Answers about Eu vou ligar para você daqui a seis minutos.

Why is vou ligar used instead of a single future-tense verb like ligarei?

Vou ligar is the very common near future structure in Brazilian Portuguese:

ir + infinitive
→ vou ligar = I’m going to call / I will call

Although ligarei is grammatically correct, it sounds more formal and less common in everyday conversation. In spoken Brazilian Portuguese, vou ligar is usually the most natural choice.

What does ligar mean here?

Here, ligar means to call on the phone.

This verb has other meanings too, depending on context, such as:

• to turn on: ligar a televisão
• to connect
• sometimes to care/pay attention in certain expressions

But in ligar para você, it clearly means to call you.

Why is it ligar para você and not just ligar você?

Because the verb ligar in the sense of to call someone normally takes the preposition para in standard Brazilian Portuguese:

• ligar para alguém = to call someone

So:

• Vou ligar para você = natural and standard

In everyday speech, many Brazilians also say:

• Vou te ligar
• Te ligo daqui a seis minutos

Those are very common colloquial alternatives, even though ligar para alguém is the more traditionally taught pattern.