-ase
Portuguese, suffix
-ase is spelled A-S-E (3 letters) and appears about once in every 4 million words in written Portuguese, the 67,344th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). -ase is a Portuguese feminine suffix meaning “-ase (forms the names of enzymes)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). On this page, ase is a different word: “first/third-person singular present subjunctive”.
What does -ase mean in English?
suffix
- 1
feminine-ase (forms the names of enzymes)
verb
- 1
first/third-person singular present subjunctive
- 2
third-person singular imperative
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
English words that translate to -ase
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is -ase in Portuguese?
-ase appears about once in every 4 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).