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How do you pronounce "dar" in Portuguese (Portugal)?
Sounds like "dar" as in father, said short, with a light tapped r at the end rather than an English r.
One syllable, fully stressed; despite looking simple, dar is highly irregular in its conjugated forms (dou, dás, dá, damos, dão).
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Dá-me o teu número.
Give me your number.
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"Dá-me o teu número" ("Give me your number") is an imperative, dá, with the pronoun -me attached after the verb by a hyphen, the classic EP object-pronoun placement. Teu is the informal possessive ("your", for tu), matched here with a casual, direct request appropriate among peers. This kind of short imperative plus attached pronoun is extremely common in spoken EP.
Where English speakers slip
Because dar is monosyllabic, learners underestimate how irregular its full conjugation is — forms like dão (nasal, "they give") and deram ("they gave") look nothing like the infinitive. The pronoun-attachment pattern (dá-me, not me dá) is also a classic marker of European versus Brazilian usage, where Brazilian speech would more often put the pronoun first.