da
Portuguese, contraction
da is spelled D-A (2 letters) and appears 13,490 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 8th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Da is a Portuguese feminine contraction meaning “contraction of de + a, literally “of/from the (feminine singular)”: feminine singular of do” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With an accent, dá is a different word: “apocopic form of dar; used preceding the pronouns lo, la, los or las”. With a tilde, dã is a different word: “duh!”. The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “contração da preposição de com o artigo definido a”.
What does da mean in English?
contraction
- 1
femininecontraction of de + a, literally “of/from the (feminine singular)”: feminine singular of do
verb
- 1
third-person singular present indicative
- 2
second-person singular imperative
- 3
apocopic form of dar; used preceding the pronouns lo, la, los or las
- 4
eye dialect spelling of dar, representing Brazil Portuguese
interjection
- 1
Brazilduh!
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
contraction: 1. contração da preposição de com o artigo definido a 2. contração da preposição de com o pronome demonstrativo a
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 da
- d'a alternative dated
- da alternative obsolete
- dah alternative Brazil Internet
- dã! canonical
- dâ alternative
- der alternative
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to da
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is da in Portuguese?
da appears 13,490 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).