banais
Portuguese, verb
banais is spelled B-A-N-A-I-S (6 letters) and appears 1.5 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 26,665th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Banais is a Portuguese verb meaning “second-person plural present subjunctive of banir” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a plural of banal. The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “segunda pessoa do plural do imperativo negativo do verbo banir”.
What does banais mean in English?
adjective
- 1
plural of banal
verb
- 1
second-person plural present subjunctive of banir
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. segunda pessoa do plural do imperativo negativo do verbo banir
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 common is banais in Portuguese?
banais appears 1.5 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).