给 + person + verb: for / to someone

给 (gěi) is first a verb: “to give”: 请给我一杯茶 (please give me a tea).

But it also introduces the person who receives or benefits from an action, before the verb:

• 给我打电话 (call me: “to me phone”)

• 我给你们买了一些水果 (I bought you some fruit)

Like 在 and 跟, “给 + person” goes before the verb, not at the end as in English.

(At level 1 it mostly appears with 打电话; other uses expand at level 2.)