-amos
Portuguese, suffix
-amos is spelled A-M-O-S (4 letters) and appears 2.3 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 20,529th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). -amos is a Portuguese suffix meaning “a suffix indicating the first-person plural present indicative of -ar” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). On this page, amos is a different word: “plural of amo”. The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “indicador de primeira pessoa do plural do presente do indicativo dos verbos terminados em -ar (primeira…”.
What does -amos mean in English?
suffix
- 1
a suffix indicating the first-person plural present indicative of -ar
falar (“to talk”) + -amos → falamos (“[we] talk”)
- 2
a suffix indicating the (Brazilian Portuguese spelling) first-person plural preterite indicative of -ar
matar (“to kill”) + -amos → matamos (“[we] killed”)
suffix
- 1
a suffix indicating the first-person plural present subjunctive of -er
correr (“to run”) + -amos → corramos (“that we run”)
- 2
a suffix indicating the first-person plural imperative of -er
correr (“to run”) + -amos → corramos (“let’s run”)
noun
- 1
plural of amo
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. prenome masculino 2. trigésimo livro da Bíblia, composto de nove capítulos 3. nome do pastor de Técoa
suffix: 1. indicador de primeira 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.
English words that translate to -amos
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is -amos in Portuguese?
-amos appears 2.3 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).