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-ais

Portuguese, suffix

-ais is a Portuguese feminine suffix meaning “a suffix indicating the second-person plural present indicative of -ar” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a plural of -al. On this page, aís is a different word: “plural of aí”. The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “indicador de segunda pessoa do plural do presente do indicativo dos verbos terminados em -ar (primeira…”.

What does -ais mean in English?

suffix

  1. 1

    a suffix indicating the second-person plural present indicative of -ar

    amar (“to love”) + -ais → amais (“[you all/formal you] love”)

suffix

  1. 1

    a suffix indicating the second-person plural present subjunctive of -er

    correr (“to run”) + -ais → corrais (“[that] you all run”)

  2. 2

    a suffix indicating the second-person plural present subjunctive of -ir

    emitir (“to emit”) + -ais → emitais (“[that] you all emit”)

suffix

  1. 1

    femininemasculineplural of -al

noun

as aís
  1. 1

    plural of aí

Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How Portuguese dictionaries define it

suffix: 1. indicador de segunda pessoa do plural do presente do indicativo dos verbos terminados em -ar (primeira conjugação)

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.