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Necesito tu ayuda.

Necesito tu ayuda.
I need your help.
From Lesson 34:Prepositional pronouns (mí, ti)·Spanish (Latin America)

Breakdown of Necesito tu ayuda.

necesitar
to need
tu
your
la ayuda
the help

Questions & Answers about Necesito tu ayuda.

Since the lesson is about "ti", why don't we say "Necesito ti ayuda"?
Ti is a pronoun used when you want to say "you" after prepositions like a, de, or para (for example, para ti means "for you"). But here, we need the word "your", not "you". The word for "your" is the possessive adjective tu, so "your help" is tu ayuda.
Why doesn't tu have an accent mark here?
In Spanish, accent marks are sometimes used to tell apart words that sound exactly the same but have different meanings. Tu (without an accent) means "your", while tú (with an accent) means "you" as a subject (like in tú necesitas). Since we are saying "your help", we use tu without the accent.
I thought ayuda was a verb meaning "he/she helps". How is it used here?
Ayuda can be a verb (from the verb ayudar), but it is also a feminine noun that translates to "help" or "assistance". You can tell it's a noun in this sentence because it comes right after tu ("your").
Does tu change its ending because ayuda is feminine?
No. The possessive adjectives mi (my) and tu (your) only change to match plural nouns by adding an 's' (mis, tus). They do not change their endings for masculine or feminine words.

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