-avas
Portuguese, suffix/ˈa.vɐs/
-avas is spelled A-V-A-S (4 letters). -avas is a Portuguese suffix meaning “a suffix indicating the second-person singular indicative imperfect of a verb in -ar” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “indicador de segunda pessoa do singular do pretérito imperfeito do indicativo dos verbos terminados em -ar…”.
What does -avas mean in English?
suffix
- 1
a suffix indicating the second-person singular indicative imperfect of a verb in -ar
amar (“to love”) + -avas → amavas (“[You] used to love”)
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 singular do pretérito imperfeito 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.
How do you pronounce -avas?
- Brazil /ˈa.vɐs/
- /ˈa.vɐʃ/
- Portugal /ˈa.vɐʃ/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.