Breakdown of Dá-me um abraço imediatamente.
um
a / an / some (all forms)
me
me
dar
to give
o abraço
the hug
imediatamente
immediately
Questions & Answers about Dá-me um abraço imediatamente.
Why is the verb form Dá here instead of Dás or Dê?
Dá is the informal command (imperative) for tu (you). To make an affirmative tu command, you take the present tense tu form (dás) and drop the final "s". If you were speaking formally to someone using você, the command would be Dê (Dê-me um abraço).
Why is me attached to the verb with a hyphen in Dá-me?
In European Portuguese, when you give an affirmative command (telling someone to do something), object pronouns like me (to me) must attach to the end of the verb with a hyphen. If this were a negative command (telling someone not to do something), the pronoun would jump before the verb instead: Não me dês um abraço.
Why does Dá have an accent mark?
The acute accent (´) tells you to stress that vowel, but it also exists to distinguish this verb form from the word da, which means "of the" or "from the" (the contraction of de + a).
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