esses
Portuguese, determiner
esses is a Portuguese masculine determiner meaning “masculine plural of esse” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With an accent, êsses is a different word: “masculine plural of êsse”.
What does esses mean in English?
determiner
- 1
masculinemasculine plural of esse
pronoun
- 1
masculinemasculine plural of esse
noun
- 1
masculineplural of esse
determiner
- 1
masculinemasculine plural of êsse
pronoun
- 1
masculinemasculine plural of êsse
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
pronoun: 1. plural de esse
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 common is esses in Portuguese?
esses appears 309 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).