Phrase · 🌠 Wishes & hopes

Tomara que dê tudo certo!

Fingers crossed everything works out!

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Pourquoi chaque mot est à sa place

Tomara1interjectionlet’s hopequeconjonctionthatdê2verbegives (works out)dar · subjonctif · présent · 3e pers. sing.tudo3pronomeverythingcerto4adjectifrightmasc. · sing.!

Tomara → dê: trigger
tudo → dê: subject
dê → certo: fixed phrase

Mot à mot : “Let’s hope that (it) gives everything right!”

Pourquoi elle est construite ainsi

Les notes correspondent aux numéros ci-dessus.

1
Tomara que is the everyday "let’s hope". It always takes the subjunctive. Subjunctive after wishes, requests & emotions →
2
dê: present subjunctive of dar, with a circumflex. Without it, de is "of". Present subjunctive: forms →
3
tudo = everything, and it never changes form. Todo/toda means "whole" or "every". tudo vs todo & indefinite pronouns I →
4
dar certo = to work out; dar errado = to go wrong. The subject (tudo) comes after the verb here.

Variantes

Tomara que tudo dê certo!
Espero que dê tudo certo!
Vai dar tudo certo!