Necesito dar de baja la línea.

to need

Breakdown of Necesito dar de baja la línea.

• dar de baja la línea: to cancel the line

Questions & Answers about Necesito dar de baja la línea.

What does dar de baja mean here?

Dar de baja is a fixed expression that means to cancel, deregister, discontinue, or deactivate a service, account, subscription, or line.

In this sentence, dar de baja la línea means something like:

• to cancel the line
• to deactivate the phone line
• to close the account for the line

It does not translate word-for-word very naturally into English, so it is best learned as one chunk: dar de baja.

Why is it Necesito dar and not something like Necesito doy?

After necesitar (to need), Spanish normally uses an infinitive when the same person does both actions.

So:

• Necesito dar de baja la línea. = I need to cancel the line.

This works the same way as in English:

• I need to go
• I need to call
• I need to cancel

In Spanish:

• Necesito ir
• Necesito llamar
• Necesito cancelar
• Necesito dar de baja

So dar stays in the infinitive because it depends on necesito.

Is one expression, or can I change the order?