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Podia trazer-me mais uma fatia e uma garrafa de água?

Podia trazer-me mais uma fatia e uma garrafa de água?
Could you bring me one more slice and a bottle of water?
From Lesson 89:Polite requests (queria, podia)·Portuguese (Portugal)

Questions & Answers about Podia trazer-me mais uma fatia e uma garrafa de água?

Why is Podia used here instead of Pode?
Podia is the imperfect past tense of poder (to be able to). While it literally means 'could' in the past, Portuguese frequently uses this past tense to make present-day requests sound much more polite, just like we use 'Could you' instead of 'Can you' in English.
Since Podia can mean 'I could' or 'you could', how do we know who it refers to?
In the imperfect tense, the eu (I) and você (you, formal) forms are identical. However, the context of asking someone to bring something to you (trazer-me) makes it clear that Podia means 'Could you' here.
Why is me attached to the end of trazer with a hyphen?
In European Portuguese, object pronouns like me (to me) normally attach to the end of the verb with a hyphen when the verb is in the infinitive (the unconjugated dictionary form, like trazer). So trazer-me means 'to bring me'.
Why does the sentence say mais uma fatia instead of uma mais fatia?
To say 'one more' or 'another' in Portuguese, you put mais (more) before the number. It literally translates to 'more one slice'. If you wanted two more slices, you would say mais duas fatias.

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