Questions & Answers about Ela não me disse a verdade ontem de manhã.
Where does the word disse come from?
It is the past tense (Pretérito Perfeito Simples) of the irregular verb dizer (to say / to tell) for the ele/ela/você form. It is highly irregular because its stem changes completely to diss- in the past tense. Notice that the first-person and third-person singular forms are exactly the same here: both "I said" and "she said" translate to disse.
Why is the pronoun me placed before the verb instead of after it?
Is the verb dizer used for both "say" and "tell"?
Yes! In English, we generally use "tell" when pointing out the listener ("tell me") and "say" when we just mention the words spoken. Portuguese uses dizer for both jobs. Here, não me disse translates smoothly to "didn't tell me".
Why do we need the word de in ontem de manhã?
When you combine a specific day word like ontem (yesterday), hoje (today), or amanhã (tomorrow) with a part of the day, you must connect them with the preposition de. So, "yesterday morning" translates literally to "yesterday of morning".