deles
Portuguese, contraction
deles is a Portuguese masculine contraction meaning “contraction of de + eles: masculine plural of dele” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a second-person singular present indicative of delir. With an accent, dêles is a different word: “pre-reform spelling (used until 1971 in Brazil and 1945 in Portugal)…”. The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “plural de dele”.
What does deles mean in English?
contraction
- 1
masculinecontraction of de + eles: masculine plural of dele
verb
- 1
second-person singular present indicative of delir
contraction
- 1
pre-reform spelling (used until 1971 in Brazil and 1945 in Portugal) of deles
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
contraction: 1. plural de dele
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 deles
- dêles alternative
- delles alternative
- d'elles alternative
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to deles
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is deles in Portuguese?
deles appears 240 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).