das
Portuguese, contraction
das is spelled D-A-S (3 letters) and appears 2,570 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 37th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Das is a Portuguese feminine contraction meaning “contraction of de (“of/from”) + as f pl (“the”): feminine plural of do” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With an accent, dás is a different word: “second-person singular present indicative of dar”. The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “da preposição de com o artigo definido feminino plural as”.
What does das mean in English?
contraction
- 1
femininecontraction of de (“of/from”) + as f pl (“the”): feminine plural of do
verb
- 1
second-person singular present indicative of dar
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
contraction: 1. da preposição de com o artigo definido feminino plural as
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 das
- d'as alternative
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is das in Portuguese?
das appears 2,570 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).