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amém

Portuguese, noun

amém is spelled A-M-É-M (4 letters) and appears 11 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 6,851st most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Amém is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “assent, approval, agreement” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). Without its accent, amem is a different word: “third-person plural present subjunctive”. The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “concordância incondicional; aprovação, consentimento, anuência”.

What does amém mean in English?

interjection

  1. 1

    amen

noun

  1. 1

    masculineassent, approval, agreement

  2. 2

    masculinerareinsignificance

verb

as amem
  1. 1

    third-person plural present subjunctive

  2. 2

    third-person plural imperative

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

How Portuguese dictionaries define it

interjection: 1. assim seja; assim é; certamente (us. esp. no fim das orações na liturgia religiosa)

noun: 1. concordância incondicional; aprovação, consentimento, anuência 2. coisa mínima, insignificância, nada

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.

Forms of amém

  • ámen alternative
  • amen alternative obsolete
  • améns plural

Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

English words that translate to amém

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is amém in Portuguese?

amém appears 11 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).

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