destes
Portuguese, contraction
destes is spelled D-E-S-T-E-S (6 letters) and appears 69 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 1,387th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Destes is a Portuguese masculine contraction meaning “contraction of de + estes, literally “of/from these (masculine)”: masculine plural of deste” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a second-person plural preterite indicative of dar. With an accent, dêstes is a different word: “pre-reform spelling (used until 1971 in Brazil and 1945 in Portugal)…”. The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “contração de de + estes”.
What does destes mean in English?
contraction
- 1
masculinecontraction of de + estes, literally “of/from these (masculine)”: masculine plural of deste
verb
- 1
second-person plural preterite indicative of dar
contraction
- 1
masculinepre-reform spelling (used until 1971 in Brazil and 1945 in Portugal) of destes: masculine plural of dêste
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
contraction: 1. contração de de + estes
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 destes
- dêstes alternative
- d'estes alternative
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is destes in Portuguese?
destes appears 69 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).