esta
Portuguese, determiner
esta is spelled E-S-T-A (4 letters) and appears 1,905 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 47th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Esta is a Portuguese feminine determiner meaning “feminine singular of este” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With an accent, está is a different word: “inflection of estar”.
What does esta mean in English?
determiner
- 1
femininefeminine singular of este
pronoun
- 1
femininefeminine singular of este
verb
- 1
inflection of estar
- 2
third-person singular present indicative
- 3
second-person singular imperative
- 4
inflection of estar
- 5
third-person singular present indicative
- 6
second-person singular imperative
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
interjection: 1. expressa saudação e contactabilidade ao telefone
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 esta
- tá alternative
- està alternative
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to esta
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is esta in Portuguese?
esta appears 1,905 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).