do
Portuguese, contraction
do is spelled D-O (2 letters) and appears 16,596 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 6th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Do is a Portuguese masculine contraction meaning “contraction of de + o, literally “of the, from the, -'s (masculine singular)”” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With an accent, dó is a different word: “pity (feeling of sympathy at the misfortune or suffering of someone…”. The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “contração da preposição de com o artigo definido o”.
What does do mean in English?
contraction
- 1
masculinecontraction of de + o, literally “of the, from the, -'s (masculine singular)”
noun
- 1
femininemasculineproscribedpity (feeling of sympathy at the misfortune or suffering of someone or something)
noun
- 1
masculinedo (first tonic of a major scale)
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 o 2. contração da preposição de com o pronome demonstrativo o
noun: 1. compaixão 2. lástima 3. luto
noun: 1. primeira nota musical da escala de dó maior
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 do
- dos plural
- da feminine
- das feminine plural
- d'o alternative
- dós plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to do
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is do in Portuguese?
do appears 16,596 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).