Word
¿Me dejas tu diccionario?
Meaning
Will you lend me your dictionary?
Part of speech
sentence
Pronunciation
Course
Lesson
Questions & Answers about ¿Me dejas tu diccionario?
Why is me in ¿Me dejas tu diccionario?
Me is an indirect object pronoun meaning to me. It shows who would receive the dictionary.
So the structure is basically:
me = to me
dejas = you lend / you let use
tu diccionario = your dictionary
Spanish normally puts this kind of pronoun before a conjugated verb, so me dejas is correct, not dejas me.
Why is it dejas?
Dejas is the tú form of the verb dejar in the present tense.
The infinitive is dejar = to leave / to let / to lend, depending on context.
Present-tense forms:
Because the sentence is addressing you informally, Spanish uses dejas.
Does dejar really mean to lend here?