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Gracias por tu ayuda.

Gracias por tu ayuda.
Thank you for your help.
From Lesson 34:Prepositional pronouns (mí, ti)·Spanish (Latin America)

Questions & Answers about Gracias por tu ayuda.

This lesson is about words like mí and ti after prepositions. Why isn't it Gracias por ti ayuda?
Because ti means "you" after a preposition, but here we need to say "your" help. The word for "your" is the possessive adjective tu. If you wanted to say "Thanks to you", you would use the prepositional pronoun from this lesson: Gracias a ti.
Why do we use por here instead of para?
When expressing gratitude, you always use por, never para. Gracias por... is the standard set phrase for "Thank you for..." in Spanish. You can think of por as showing an exchange: you are giving your thanks in return for their help.
Isn't ayuda a verb that means "he or she helps"?
It can be! Many Spanish words can be both verbs and nouns depending on how they are used. In this sentence, ayuda is a noun meaning "help" or "assistance". You can tell it's a noun here because it comes right after the possessive word tu (your).
Shouldn't tu have an accent mark over the u?
Not in this case. tu without an accent mark means "your" (tu ayuda = your help). If you add an accent mark (tú), it becomes the subject pronoun "you", like in the sentence Tú ayudas (You help).

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