-emos
Portuguese, suffix
-emos is spelled E-M-O-S (4 letters) and appears about once in every 1 million words in written Portuguese, the 34,194th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). -emos is a Portuguese suffix meaning “forms the 1ˢᵗ person plural present subjunctive of 1ˢᵗ conjugation verbs” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). On this page, emos is a different word: “plural of emo”. The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “indicador de primeira pessoa do plural do presente do subjuntivo dos verbos terminados em -ar (primeira…”.
What does -emos mean in English?
suffix
- 1
forms the 1ˢᵗ person plural present subjunctive of 1ˢᵗ conjugation verbs
- 2
forms the 1ˢᵗ person plural affirmative and negative imperative of 1ˢᵗ conjugation verbs
- 3
forms the 1ˢᵗ person plural present indicative of 2ⁿᵈ conjugation verbs
- 4
forms the 1ˢᵗ person plural preterite indicative of 2ⁿᵈ conjugation verbs
- 5
forms the 1ˢᵗ person plural present indicative of 1ˢᵗ conjugation verbs
noun
- 1
masculineplural of emo
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
suffix: 1. indicador de primeira pessoa do plural do presente do subjuntivo dos verbos terminados em -ar (primeira conjugação) 2. indicador de primeira pessoa do plural do imperativo, afirmativo e negativo, dos verbos terminados em -ar (primeira conjugação) 3. indicador de primeira pessoa do plural do presente do indicativo dos verbos terminados em -er (segunda conjugação) 4. indicador de primeira pessoa do plural do pretérito perfeito do indicativo dos verbos terminados em -er (segunda conjugação)
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.
English words that translate to -emos
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is -emos in Portuguese?
-emos appears about once in every 1 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).