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Why say "dame la mano" instead of "dame tu mano"?

"Dame la mano" would mean "give me the hand". Shouldn't it be better to say "give me your hand" by saying "dame tu mano"? For reference this is the entire phrase coming from spanishdict: "Dame la ...
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¿Qué tan válido es el doble posesivo?

En los últimos días, empecé a leer la novela de José Rizal Noli me tangere, y en el capítulo IV noté que un personaje le comenta al otro las siguientes frases: (...)su padre, de Ud., que estaba preso!...
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Cannot use adverbs + possessives: "delante de ti" v/s "delante tuyo"

In Spanish there are some adverbs followed by de: Delante de, atrás de, en frente de, etc... When these adverbs are followed in a sentence by a declined pronoun, they are often "contracted" ...
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