-agem
Portuguese, suffix
-agem is spelled A-G-E-M (4 letters) and appears 5.5 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 11,403rd most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). -agem is a Portuguese feminine suffix meaning “Forms uncountable nouns, from verbs, meaning the practice of doing what is expressed by the verb” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). On this page, agem is a different word: “third-person plural present indicative of agir”. The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “exprime a ideia de ação ou resultado de ação (substantivo ou adjetivo + -agem)”.
What does -agem mean in English?
suffix
- 1
feminineForms uncountable nouns, from verbs, meaning the practice of doing what is expressed by the verb.
armazenar (“to store”) + -agem → armazenagem (“storage”)
- 2
feminineForms nouns, from verbs, meaning an instance of doing what is expressed by the verb.
filmar (“to film”) + -agem → filmagem (“an instance of filming”)
- 3
feminineForms nouns, from nouns expressing a type of person, meaning attitude or an act expected from that kind of person.
caipira (“hillbilly”) + -agem → caipiragem (“attitude of a hillbilly”)
- 4
feminineForms nouns, from nouns, meaning a collection of things; -age
árbitro (“referee”) + -agem → arbitragem (“referees and umpires who attend a match”)
- 5
feminineForms nouns for concepts related to the suffixed word.
por cento (“percent”) + -agem → porcentagem (“percentage”)
verb
- 1
third-person plural present indicative of agir
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
suffix: 1. exprime a ideia de ação ou resultado de ação (substantivo ou adjetivo + -agem) 2. exprime a ideia de ação ou resultado de coleção, união, reunião (substantivo + -agem)
The definition in the Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), in Portuguese.
Source: Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
English words that translate to -agem
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is -agem in Portuguese?
-agem appears 5.5 times per million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).