Why accusative?
La verbo "doni" estas transitiva verbo, kiu povas havi rektan objekton, do "esperoN" (akuzativo).
Thanks, some of the accusative stuff still confuses me
Vi (subject) donas (verb) esperon (object) al mi. (no accusative 'n' after preposition 'al')
and al mi (an indirect object = nerekta/dativa objekto).
'Esperon' is separated from the subject by a few words, but still the direct object in this case. Think of it as "Vi donas esperon al mi".
The object usually answers the question ""what"". You give me what? ""Hope"" is the object. of the sentence.
Vi, estas la lumo de mia vivo... Vi donas al mi esperon per dauxrigxi...