elas
Portuguese, pronoun
elas is spelled E-L-A-S (4 letters) and appears 295 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 310th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Elas is a Portuguese feminine pronoun meaning “they (a group of people other than the speaker, entirely female)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a tilde, elãs is a different word: “plural of elã”. The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “pronome pessoal da terceira pessoa do plural”.
What does elas mean in English?
pronoun
- 1
femininethey (a group of people other than the speaker, entirely female)
- 2
Brazilfemininethird-person feminine plural personal pronoun used in all positions; they; them; it
Vi elas cantando.
suffix
- 1
plural of -ela
noun
- 1
masculineplural of elã
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
pronoun: 1. pronome pessoal da terceira pessoa do plural
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 elas
- ellas alternative
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to elas
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is elas in Portuguese?
elas appears 295 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).