Hãy thả tay tôi ra.

Hãy is a marker used to make a request, instruction, or exhortation. In English, it often corresponds to please, do, or just the imperative mood.

So:

• Hãy thả tay tôi ra. = Let go of my hand.

A few notes:

• Hãy is common in careful, instructional, or written Vietnamese.
• In real-life urgent speech, people often just say:
  • Thả tay tôi ra!
• So hãy adds an imperative feel, but it does not always sound especially soft or polite like English please.

In this sentence, thả means something like release, let go, or let loose.

It often has the idea of allowing something to move freely instead of holding it.

Examples:

• thả chim = release a bird
• thả tóc = let one’s hair down
• thả tay tôi ra = let go of my hand

In everyday speech, a learner may also hear:

• Buông tay tôi ra.

That is also very natural, and buông often sounds even more directly like let go.

In Vietnamese, possession is often shown without của, especially with:

• body parts
• family relations
• very close personal things

So:

• tay tôi = my hand
• literally: hand I/me

Using của is possible in some contexts, but here it would sound less natural:

• tay của tôi = my hand, but less natural in this command

For body parts, Vietnamese usually prefers the simpler pattern:

• tay tôi
• mắt tôi
• chân tôi

That is very normal in Vietnamese.

Tôi is basically the pronoun I / me, but when it follows a noun, it can function like my.

So:

• tôi = I / me
• tay tôi = my hand
• nhà tôi = my house
• bạn tôi = my friend

Vietnamese does not always need a separate word like English my. Very often, possession is shown simply by placing the pronoun after the noun.

Ra is a very common particle in Vietnamese. Here it adds the idea of:

• out
• away
• free from contact
• a completed result of releasing

So thả ... ra means more than just release in an abstract sense. It suggests release outward / let go completely.

Compare the feeling:

• thả tay tôi = release my hand
• thả tay tôi ra = let go of my hand, release it fully

This kind of verb + particle combination is very common in Vietnamese.

Examples:

• mở ra = open
• lấy ra = take out
• bỏ ra = put out / take out, depending on context

The basic pattern here is:

verb + object + particle

So:

• thả = let go / release
• tay tôi = my hand
• ra = out / away / completely released

That gives:

• thả tay tôi ra

This is the normal order in Vietnamese for many verb-particle combinations when there is an object in the middle.

So a learner should get used to patterns like:

• cầm cái này lên = pick this up
• bỏ nó xuống = put it down
• lấy tay ra = move your hand away
• thả tay tôi ra = let go of my hand

It depends a bit on context, but overall it sounds like a command.

• Hãy can sound instructional, formal, or exhortative.
• In a tense situation, thả tay tôi ra is quite direct: Let go of my hand.

If someone is grabbing you, this sentence is naturally forceful.

If you wanted to sound more polite, you might add something like:

• Làm ơn thả tay tôi ra. = Please let go of my hand.

But in an urgent situation, Vietnamese often drops polite softeners and simply uses the command.

Yes, it is understandable, but in everyday speech, many speakers would more naturally say:

• Thả tay tôi ra!
• Buông tay tôi ra!

Especially in a real emotional or physical situation, buông tay tôi ra! is very common and natural for Let go of my hand!

So:

• Hãy thả tay tôi ra. = grammatical and clear
• Thả tay tôi ra! = more natural in speech
• Buông tay tôi ra! = very common everyday wording

Not usually. In context, it means stop holding my hand or release my hand.

English drop can sound like letting something fall, but Vietnamese thả here is understood as let go of what you are holding.

So the natural meaning is:

• Let go of my hand
• Release my hand

not usually:

• Drop my hand in the physical falling sense

A rough pronunciation guide is:

• Hãy ≈ hy / high, with a dipping-rising tone
• thả ≈ tah, with a low falling-creaky tone
• tay ≈ tay
• tôi ≈ toy
• ra ≈ rah

Very roughly:

Hãy thả tay tôi ra → hy tah tay toy rah

But the tones matter a lot in Vietnamese, so the best way to learn it is by listening to native audio.

Tone pattern:

• hãy = ngã tone
• thả = hỏi tone
• tay = level tone
• tôi = level tone
• ra = level tone

Yes. In fact, leaving it out is often more natural in conversation.

So:

• Hãy thả tay tôi ra. = Let go of my hand.
• Thả tay tôi ra! = Let go of my hand!

Both are correct, but the version without hãy is often more immediate and natural in spoken Vietnamese, especially when giving a direct command.