desses
Portuguese, contraction
desses is a Portuguese masculine contraction meaning “contraction of de + esses, literally “of/from those (masculine, near you)”: masculine plural of desse” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a second-person singular imperfect subjunctive of dar. With an accent, dêsses is a different word: “pre-reform spelling (used until 1971 in Brazil and 1945 in Portugal)…”. The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “contração da preposição de com o pronome ou determinante demonstrativo esses”.
What does desses mean in English?
contraction
- 1
masculinecontraction of de + esses, literally “of/from those (masculine, near you)”: masculine plural of desse
verb
- 1
second-person singular imperfect subjunctive of dar
contraction
- 1
masculinepre-reform spelling (used until 1971 in Brazil and 1945 in Portugal) of desses
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 pronome ou determinante demonstrativo esses
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 desses
- dêsses alternative
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is desses in Portuguese?
desses appears 117 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).