contendas
Portuguese, verb
contendas is spelled C-O-N-T-E-N-D-A-S (9 letters) and appears about once in every 3 million words in written Portuguese, the 57,216th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Contendas is a Portuguese verb meaning “second-person singular present subjunctive of contender” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “segunda pessoa do singular do imperativo negativo do verbo contender”.
What does contendas mean in English?
verb
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second-person singular present subjunctive of contender
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 singular do imperativo negativo do verbo contender
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 contendas in Portuguese?
contendas appears about once in every 3 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).