essas
Portuguese, determiner/ˈɛ.sɐs/
essas is spelled E-S-S-A-S (5 letters) and appears 295 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 310th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Essas is a Portuguese feminine determiner meaning “feminine plural of esse” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
What does essas mean in English?
determiner
- 1
femininefeminine plural of esse
pronoun
- 1
femininefeminine plural of esse
noun
- 1
plural of essa (“catafalque”)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
pronoun: 1. plural de essa
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.
How do you pronounce essas?
- Brazil /ˈɛ.sɐs/
- /ˈɛ.sɐʃ/
- Portugal /ˈɛ.sɐʃ/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is essas in Portuguese?
essas 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).