cujo
Portuguese, determiner/ˈku.ʒu/
cujo is spelled C-U-J-O (4 letters) and appears 59 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 1,644th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Cujo is a Portuguese determiner meaning “whose (of whom)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
What does cujo mean in English?
determiner
- 1
whose (of whom)
A miúda cujos cabelos são negros é bonita
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
pronoun: 1. relaciona dois substantivos, um antecedente e outro consequente, sendo este último possuidor de algo (qualidade, condição, sentimento, ser etc.) designado pelo primeiro; equivale a de que, de quem, do/da qual, dos/das quais
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.
Forms of cujo
- cuja feminine
- cujos masculine plural
- cujas feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce cujo?
- Brazil /ˈku.ʒu/
- Portugal /ˈku.ʒu/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to cujo
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is cujo in Portuguese?
cujo appears 59 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).