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Darai l'eredità all'erede? Sì, gliela darò.

Darai l'eredità all'erede? Sì, gliela darò.
Will you give the inheritance to the heir? Yes, I will give it to him.
From Lesson 414:Subject inversion in relative clauses·Italian

Questions & Answers about Darai l'eredità all'erede? Sì, gliela darò.

How exactly do we get gliela in the second sentence?
It is a double object pronoun. We combine the indirect object gli (to him) and the direct object la (it, referring to the feminine noun l'eredità). When gli combines with lo, la, li, or le, it adds an e to become glie-, merging into one single word: gliela.
If the heir were female, would gliela change?
No, it stays exactly the same. When forming combined pronouns, the feminine indirect object le (to her) changes to glie-, merging with the direct object exactly like the masculine gli does. So gliela translates to both "it to him" and "it to her".
Why doesn't the future tense of dare follow the regular -are verb rules?
Normally, -are verbs change the a to an e in the future tense (for example, parlare becomes parlerò). However, dare (to give), stare (to stay/be), and fare (to do/make) are common exceptions. They keep the a in their stem, which is why we see darai and darò here instead of derai or derò.
Is erede a masculine or feminine noun?
It can be both! Erede (heir) is a noun whose grammatical gender changes depending on the person you are referring to: l'erede (masculine) for a male heir, and l'erede (feminine) for a female heir. Because it starts with a vowel, the articulated preposition a + the definite article contracts to all' in both cases.

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