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Mi porti un asciugacapelli e un'altra coperta.

Mi porti un asciugacapelli e un'altra coperta.
Bring me a hairdryer and another blanket.
From Lesson 145:Formal commands with pronouns (lo faccia, mi scusi)·Italian

Questions & Answers about Mi porti un asciugacapelli e un'altra coperta.

Why is it Mi porti instead of Portami?
This is the formal imperative (using the polite Lei form). While pronouns attach to the end of informal commands like portami, they must go before the verb in formal commands. So, to say bring me formally, you use mi porti.
Why does the verb end in -i (porti)? Isn't the Lei form of portare usually porta?
You are thinking of the normal present tense! In the formal imperative, -are verbs take an -i ending instead of an -a. Since portare is an -are verb, its formal command form becomes porti.
Asciugacapelli ends in an -i, so isn't it plural? Why use the singular un?
Asciugacapelli is a compound word made from asciuga (dries) and capelli (hair). Because it includes the plural word for hair, the noun itself always ends in -i, even when you are talking about just one singular hairdryer (un asciugacapelli).
Why does un'altra have an apostrophe, but un asciugacapelli doesn't?
Asciugacapelli is masculine, so it uses the standard masculine article un, which never takes an apostrophe. Altra is feminine, so it uses the feminine article una. When una comes before a word starting with a vowel, the a drops and is replaced with an apostrophe, making it un'altra.

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