Eu vou ligar para você daqui a seis minutos.

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.

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.

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.

Yes. In spoken Brazilian Portuguese, para is very often reduced to pra.

So these mean the same thing:

• Eu vou ligar para você daqui a seis minutos
• Eu vou ligar pra você daqui a seis minutos

Para is a bit more neutral or formal in writing. Pra is extremely common in conversation.

Daqui a means in ... or ... from now when talking about time.

So:

• daqui a seis minutos = in six minutes
• literally, something like from now to six minutes ahead

Other examples:

• daqui a pouco = in a little while
• daqui a uma hora = in an hour
• daqui a dois dias = in two days

This is a very useful time expression in Portuguese.

Because daqui a is a fixed pattern used for future time.

Structure:

• daqui a + amount of time

Examples:

• daqui a cinco minutos
• daqui a três semanas
• daqui a um mês

You should learn it as one chunk: daqui a = in / from now

Sometimes, but not in exactly the same way.

Daqui a seis minutos clearly means:

• six minutes from now

Em seis minutos can sometimes mean:

• in six minutes
• but often with more of a sense like within six minutes or in a duration of six minutes

So if you want to say I’ll call you six minutes from now, daqui a seis minutos is the clearest and most natural choice.

Yes. You can say:

• Vou ligar para você daqui a seis minutos

That is completely natural.

Brazilian Portuguese often keeps subject pronouns more than European Portuguese does, but Eu is still often omitted when the meaning is clear from the verb form. Adding Eu can give a little more emphasis or clarity.

No. Portuguese allows some flexibility.

These are all natural:

• Eu vou ligar para você daqui a seis minutos.
• Daqui a seis minutos, eu vou ligar para você.
• Eu vou ligar daqui a seis minutos para você.

The first one is the most neutral. Putting daqui a seis minutos at the beginning can emphasize the time.

Because você is the most common way to say you in much of Brazil.

In regions where tu is common, people might say things like:

• Eu vou ligar para ti daqui a seis minutos
• Vou te ligar daqui a seis minutos

Usage depends a lot on the region and the local speaking style. For a general Brazilian Portuguese sentence, você is a very safe and common choice.

Yes, very often in everyday Brazilian Portuguese you can hear:

• Te ligo daqui a seis minutos
• Vou te ligar daqui a seis minutos

These are very natural in speech.

A small note: traditional grammar prefers ligar para alguém, which is why learners often see ligar para você in textbooks. But real spoken Brazilian Portuguese commonly uses te ligar as well.

Because the number is greater than one.

• um minuto
• dois minutos
• seis minutos

If it were one minute, the sentence would be:

• Eu vou ligar para você daqui a um minuto.

A very natural spoken version could be:

• Vou ligar pra você daqui a seis minutos.

Even more conversationally, depending on the speaker:

• Te ligo daqui a seis minutos.

In fast speech, you may also hear reduced pronunciation such as:

• pra você
• sometimes even cê instead of você in very informal speech

But for learning, vou ligar pra você daqui a seis minutos is a great natural spoken model.

A simple approximation is:

• vou ≈ voh or voo with a glide
• ligar ≈ lee-GAR

Very roughly:

• vou ligar ≈ voh lee-GAR

A few pronunciation notes for Brazilian Portuguese:

• vou rhymes roughly with English go, but not exactly
• the final r in ligar is usually a breathy h-like sound in many Brazilian accents
• você is commonly pronounced roughly like vo-SEH

So the whole sentence, very approximately, sounds like:

• eh-ooh voh lee-GAR pra vo-SEH dah-KEE ah says mee-NOO-toos

That is only an approximation, but it can help at the beginning.